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Description: Consists of ten photographic cabinet cards. Sitters include John Edward Hollenbeck and Mrs. Hollenbeck, Jessie Benton Fremont, Florence Hutchings, Joseph LeConte, John LeConte, Eleanor Josephine Graham, Don Antonio Franco Coronel, Mariana W. de Coronel, and Dr. Partz.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-1931
Call number: photPF 100-109
Provenance: Acquired from Carr, 1931.
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Portraits

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Consists of ten photographs. Portrait sitters include John C. Fremont and Jessie Benton Fremont at the Freemont Tree, Benjamin West (of Rochelle, Illinois), General Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Ole Bull, Paul du Chaillu, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Daniel Boone, Henry Durant, and George Stoneman.

photPF 80-89

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Portraits of Civil War military officers and other individuals

Visual Materials

Consists of 167 photographs including copy prints, cabinet cards, and carte-de-visites. Sitters include both Confederate and Union supporters. Notable portrait sitters are Alexander Sandor Asboth, Henry Watkins Allen, Edward Dickinson Baker, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard), John Cabell Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jefferson Davis, Abram Duryée, David Glasgow Farragut, Jessie Benton Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Henry Wager Halleck, David Hunter, Philip Kearny, Henry Warner Slocum, Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Henry Lane, Robert Edward Lee, Berian Magoffin, James King Fenno Mansfield, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, George Brinton McClellan, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Gustavus Woodson Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Stoneman, William Lowndes Yancey. Photographers include Matthew Brady and Edward Anthony.

photPF 2495-2619

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Portraits

Visual Materials

Consists of ten photographs and one envelope of accompanying correspondence for photPF 65. Portrait sitters include Sir Edmund Gosse, Andre Gide, Isaac L. Requa, Cecil Rhodes, General John Augustus Sutter, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Sidney P. Edgerton, and a member of the Jayhawkers of 1849.

photPF 60-69

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Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators

Visual Materials

Consists of 88 photographs, including snapshots and carte-de-visite photographs. Union sitters include Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, William Dennison, John Hay, Joseph Holt, William P. Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch, John G. Nicholay, William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Miss Katherine Chase Sprague, John Palmer Usher, and Gideon Welles. Confederate sitters include Alexander Stephens, Linton Stephens, and John C. Breckinridge. Additional portraits of the Lincoln kidnapping and assassination conspirators are also included: Samuel B. Arnold, Georg A. Atzerodt, John Wilkes Booth, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell (Lewis Payne, or Paine) Edward Spangler, and Mary E. Surratt. Also included are three portraits of Boston Corbett, the Union sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth. Some of these items are noted as reproduced from Frederick H. Meserve holdings.

photPF 1870-1909

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Broughton, Mrs. L. V. To Colton, John Burt. Waverly, Mo

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

JA 109

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Brier, John Wells. To Richards, Luther A. Salinas, Calif

Manuscripts

JA 100

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