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Photographs of Civil War generals and officers
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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.
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G.M. Wheeler album of carte-de-visite photographs of engraved portraits of Civil War-era officers
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An album with 100 carte-de-visite photographs of steel engraved portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, members of his administration, and officers of the U.S. Army. All images are photographic reproductions of steel-engraved portraits (creators unknown). One looke photograph has the imprint of "Elias Dexter, 564 Broadway." Sitters include William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Joseph Hooker, Philip Sheridan, C.B. Smith, Gideon Wells, Salmon P. Chase, E. Babs, M. Blair, Gen. John Morgan, Robert B. Taney, Valandingham, Winfield Scott, A.L. Duryea, Reno, McCook, Gen. Shields, Gen. E.V. Sumner, Gen Burns, Gen. Pleasanton, Jollicoffer (?), Gen Van Dorn, Gen. Mansfield Lovell, Maj. Gen. Meade, Lt. Worden, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, Gen. McClellan, Gen. M.C. Meigs, Gen. Mansfield, Gov. Sprague, Com. Porter, Com. Stringham, Maj. Gen. McDowell, Maj. Gen Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. Sheridan, Col. Ellsworth, Gen. Siegel, Maj. Gen. Rosecrans, Gen. Magruder, Gen. Polk, Gen. Sickles, Gen. Stoneman, Gen. J.H.H. Ward, Gen. Stevens, J.P. Benjamin, Maj. Gen. Schofield, Maj. Gen. Reynolds, Maj. Gen. Smith, Maj. Gen. Wool, Gen. Lyon, Ge. Mitchel, Com. Wilkes, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, Com. Foote, Com. Farragut, Gen. A.P. Hill, Gen. Halleck, Gen. Burnside, Maj. Gen. Hunter, Maj. Gen. W.S. Hancock, Maj. Gen. Banks, Gen. Anderson, Maj. Gen Heintzelman, Gen. Beauregard, Gen. Baker, Maj. Gen. Butler, Gen. Benham, Com. Dupont, Maj. Gen. Dix. Many pages include two portraits of the same subject.
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Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Civil War military officers, and related individuals
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All carte-de-visite studio portraits, except larger print of Farragut. Three portraits of Abraham Lincoln (albumen copies of portraits by Mathew Brady). Two photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln, in white, 1862, and wearing all black. Portraits of Civil War U. S. Army officers WIlliam Starke Rosecrans, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Charles Zagonyi, Ellersly Wallace, Winfield Scott, David G. Farragut. Other portraits: William Gannaway Brownlow, John Jordan Crittenden, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Thomas Alexander Scott, Stephen Arnold Douglas and his wife Martha Martin Douglas, Hannibal Hamlin, William Henry Seward; Joseph Holt, John Ericsson, Salmon Portland Chase.
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Portraits of Civil War military officers and other individuals
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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.
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Notable people of San Francisco and other miscellaneous photographs
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Notable people of San Francisco and the Bay Area: William A. Leidesdorff (drawing); photocollage of 148 headshots of "distinguished citizens of San Francisco" who participated in the Centennial Anniversary, 1876; photocollage of 40 "Public Men of San Francisco"(1870s?); Alfred J. Share, Oakland reporter; Rev. Benjamin Akerly; Charles McPhail Hitchcock, Martha T. Hitchcock (copies); Lillie Hitchcock Coit in firefighter helmet; Isaac Green Messec, Joseph Pownell, Gen. I. H. Dewall; E. Calishen; E. Skidmore (early San Francisco printer); I. B. Pownall as a boy. Other portrait photographs in this folder: U.S. Army general Edward Canby by Carleton Watkins; Rev. John Sackville Sharp (1799-1895) and fifth generation grandchild Marjorie Clover; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Franklin Thorpe; Sarah M. Cool; Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Eva Mackay (Princess Colonna) as a child (1862?); Elizabeth Smith (mourning photograph).
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Photographs of Confederate States of America army generals and high-ranking officers
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A collection of portrait photographs of over 200 Confederate army generals and high-ranking personnel, mostly taken during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Photographs include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, and albumen prints affixed to paper. Many have biographical notes or regimental history written on the back, or clippings from newspapers adhered next to the photograph on board. Sitters are in uniform and in civilian clothes. Includes portraits taken into the 1890s. There are no images of General Robert E. Lee or James Longstreet. There are occasionally portraits of Confederate sympathizers, such as Mary E. Surratt.
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