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Photograph album of Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet and generals

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Description: Cartes-de-visite from negatives in Brady National Gallery, by E. Anthony. Signatures are included.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1861-1862.
Call number: photCL 256
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 1984.
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Album of Abraham Lincoln portraits, Lincoln Family, and events around his life

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A leather album with brass hinges containing cartes-de-visite photographs of Abraham Lincoln and events related to his life and death. There are images of Mary, Robert, and Thomas Lincoln. There are images of the political men of the time including Stephen Douglas, Frank P. Blair, and Thomas Eckert. There are also images of the assassin John Wilkes Booth.

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Samuel Clemens family photograph album

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An album containing 38 cartes-de-visite of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, his family, and photographs of pieces of art. There are ten studio portraits of Clemens that are dated between 1869 and 1872, four of which were taken at the same session at W. & A.H. Fry Art Photographers in Brighton. Other portraits show his children Langdon, Clara, and Susy as babies, and an older woman identified as "Grandma Ford". Following the portraits there are 12 photographs or reproductions of works of art, including four allegorical relief sculptures showing the four seasons by Bertel Thorvaldsen, and two photographs of an actress in costume, reprinted from negatives in the Brady Theatre collection. Two of the photographs are studio portraits of cats. In addition to the four photographs by W. & A.H. Fry, there are two photographs each by H.L. Bundy (Hartford, Connecticut), E.H. Paige (Buffalo, New York), Prescott & White (Hartford, Connecticut), and E. & H.T. Anthony (New York City), as well as single portraits from studios in New York, Hartford, Pennsylvania, Brighton, and Edinburgh.

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Unidentified family photograph album

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A commercially produced carte-de-visite photograph album compiled by an unidentified person containing cartes-de-visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children. Photographers imprints are from the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. There are also five additional loose card photographs: a portrait of United States President James A. Garfield, captioned "Our Late President," and one of his wife, Lucretia Garfield by "Pell"; photographs of a family in front of a log-cabin house and a two-story house; and a photograph by S. Marksville of people standing in the front of the C.C. Lass shop, presumably in New York, with an Indian statue on the sidewalk and illustrated newspaper covers displayed in the windows.

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Cabinet card album

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Two photograph albums of Pilliner family and other portraits, chiefly taken by William H. Pilliner, an early photographer in the American West. Subjects include Pilliner, his wife Eliza Jane (McGuire) Pilliner, members of the Pilliner and McGuire families, and associates. One album contains cartes-de-visite and tintypes, the other is larger, containing mostly cabinet card photographs. The images date from approximately 1870s to 1902, and some are inscribed. The collection also includes a typescript by Cornelia Elizabeth McGuire (Eliza Jane's sister) of the McGuire family genealogy from 1700 to the mid-1900s, and a typescript of W. H. Pilliner's biography. One photograph depicts G. W. Jenkins and I. N. McGuire, the proprietors of the Santa Maria Times, superimposed over a photograph of the newspaper. Some imprints on the images say "W. H. Pilliner, Pioneer Artist" and studio locations include Reno and Idaho Falls. There are also a few photographs by Piggott & Shaw of Santa Rosa, California.

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Abraham Lincoln photograph album

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A photographic album with 59 images showing the places where Abraham Lincoln lived in Illinois and Kentucky. The towns and cities featured include Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Hodgensville, Kentucky; Lincoln City, Indiana; Petersburg, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois; and Chicago, Illinois. Most of the photographs show the exteriors of buildings, with a few interior views, particularly of Lincoln's house in Springfield, Illinois. A manuscript letter from compiler Albert C. Grier to Milwaukee Lincolniana collector John E. Burton, attached to the rear pastedown, explains how the album was assembled.

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