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Unidentified family carte-de-visite album

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Description: A photograph album of carte-de-visite studio portraits and a few tintypes of men, women, and children. There are no identifications in the album, but a name was found written in ink on the back of the first photograph: William B. Leach, in a portrait by Alexander Hesler, Chicago, Ill. Imprints seen on several other photographs are from studios in Aurora and Elgin, Illinois. There are two portraits of young men in Civil War soldier's uniforms.
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Production date: approximately 1860s-1870s
Call number: photCL 364
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Irene M. Pierce, April 1973
Dimensions: images chiefly 9 x 6 cm (carte-de-visite format), album 16 x 14 cm

Photograph album containing cartes-de-visite and tintype portraits of unidentified sitters

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A commercially produced carte-de-visite album containing portraits of men, women, and children in professional studio settings (some possibly in Southern California). Only two subjects are identified in the album (Bill Gamble's father (#74) and Bill Gamble and his mother in San Diego, 1914/15 (#75).

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Civil War carte-de-visite album

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A photograph album containing Civil War carte-de-visite studio portraits including twenty-six members of the 17th Michigan Infantry, three officers of the 20th Michigan Infantry, and one of the 2nd Michigan Infantry, as well as nineteen portraits of high-ranking Union officers, members of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In addition, there is one photograph of a child's body with the head of Jefferson Davis pasted on it, with the handwritten label "Jeff Davis-'on his last legs.'" All but one of the subjects have handwritten identifications written on album page. With handwritten note on flyleaf: "This album was picked up on the battle field after the battle of Nigh Run, Virginia, May 9/64. By C. D. Todd." There are two portraits of Todd in the album.

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Darwin family carte-de-visite album, (bulk 1871-1879)

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A brown leather carte-de-visite photograph album containing 19 portraits chiefly of English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family, dating from the 1870s. The album has an inscription from Darwin's son-in-law Richard. B. Litchfield to Anne Griffiths (1844-1928), a servant in Down House, the Darwin family home, dated 1879, the year Griffiths ended her employment with the Darwins. The volume contains portraits of Darwin (page 3r); his wife, Emma (page 2r); at least five of their children, including Elizabeth Darwin (page 4v and 8r), George Darwin (pages 10v), Henrietta Darwin (pages 4r, 7r, 13v), Horace Darwin (page 10r), and Leonard Darwin (?) (pages 6r and 8v); Henrietta's husband, R. B. Litchfield (pages 5r and 6v); and Francis Darwin's son, Bernard Darwin (pages 2v, 11r, and 12v). There are also three unidentified portraits (pages 9r, 12r, and 13r). The mounts primarily contain imprints of London photographers including three photograph by Oscar Gustav Rejlander (pages 3r, 6r, 6v); there are also two by German photographer Wilhelm Mayr (pages 4r and 5r). Album has seven interspersed pages of color lithograph images of a bird and flowers.

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Carte-de-visite 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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Civil War carte-de-visite album

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An album with 177 photographs taken during the Civil War, especially carte-de-visite portraits of Union and Confederate generals, high ranking officers, and contemporary political and public figures. The photographs have handwritten captions in German. A note laid in the front of the volume is signed by Agnes Salm-Salm, the wife of the Prussian mercenary Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm who was appointed colonel of the 68th New York Infantry Regiment. While most of the images are studio portraits, there are a few photographs of military scenes in Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia; and an army field camp in Virginia, dated 1863. Some of the photographs are autographed, including the portrait of General Joseph Hooker. The captions of some of the photographs indicate that the subjects are European aristocrats, including Graf von Paris, Herzog von Chartres, Prinz von Joinville, and Baron von Gerolt. In some cases the captions identify the regiment that the subject is associated with, and there are several members of the 68th New York Infantry Regiment. The album also contains an illustrated portrait of Union General James B. Steedman; a photograph of President Andrew Johnson, dated 1867; a colored sketch of purple and white flowers; and several composite cartes-de-visites of Civil War officers. The collection contains pictures of women and children, including two tin-type photographs, both studio portraits. On the last page of the album there is a studio portrait of John Wilkes Booth; "Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis)," a photograph after a painting by James Ferris; a photograph of the marriage of Tom Thumb; and a studio portrait of Frederick d'Utassy as a flag bearer.

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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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Unidentified family carte-de-visite album

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