Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
The might of the Republic : a collection of original autographs
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Visual Materials
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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45 portrait photographs of Hamlin and Besse family members, cousins, and friends, most unidentified. Most of the portraits are carte-de-visite size with photographers' studio stamps from Sterling, Illinois, and elsewhere in Illinois, Iowa, and the United States. Ten of the cartes-de-visite depict popular genre scenes and paintings. Some items depict or were owned by Frank G. Besse and Eva May Besse.
photCL 523
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Carte-de-visite photographs of Civil War generals and officers, almost all taken during the war. Includes: Benjamin Franklin Butler; David Farragut; Henry Halleck; five different portraits of Robert E. Lee; L. K. Westcott; Gouverneur Kemble Warren; R. H. Johnson; four different portraits of William Rosecrans; Alexander McCook; Edwin Stanton; Winfield Scott; and two different portraits of Ulysses S. Grant. Several photographs by Mathew Brady.
photPF 2880-2899
Manuscripts
Carte-de-visite presented personally to W.H.H. Jones at the War Office, Washington, D.C., with signature in bottom margin. Alexander Gardner imprint and note of W.H.H. Jones on reverse.
mssLincoln
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Manuscripts
Carte-de-visite presented personally to W.H.H. Jones at the War Office, Washington, D.C., with signature in bottom margin. Alexander Gardner imprint and note of W.H.H. Jones on reverse.
HM 3124
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Photomontage showing half-length portraits of 42 Union officers and politicians from the American Civil War. Each portrait is numbered and corresponds to a printed index on the photograph's mount.
photOV 10185
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A collection of five photographs of various Beecher family members in five different photographic formats: ambrotype, albumen print, carte-de-visite, cabinet photograph, and a hand-colored salted paper print. A portrait of Lyman Beecher produced by Mathew Brady in 1856 is a combination of watercolor, ink, and pencil added to the surface of a salted paper print. There are two variants of a Beecher family group portrait taken in 1859 depicting Lyman Beecher and nine of his adult children; one is a large albumen print and the other an ambrotype. Also included are an autographed cabinet photograph of an older Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a hand-colored Augustus Morand print based on a miniature of a young Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher, author and wife of Henry Ward Beecher. This carte-de-visite portrait is within a Bullard family album containing 45 additional cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs. Only a few portraits in the album are identified, including some cousins of Eunice Bullard.
photCL 688