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Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Civil War military officers, and related individuals
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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.
photPF 2880-2899
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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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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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Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs
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Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.
photPF 2210-2242
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United States Army and Navy officer photographs
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The Civil War collection of United States Army and Naval officers consist of twenty-four carte de visite and cabinet card portraits attributed to the James William Eldridge collection (mssEG). The military figures include such persons as Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863), Major General George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885), Brigadier General Theodore Runyon (1822-1896), and Admiral William Branford Shubrick (1790-1874). The collection also includes an image of George W. Sadler (1819-1876), the undertaker who escorted John Brown to his execution.
photPF 3276-3299b
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Herbert William Singleton Collection of Civil War Photographs
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The Herbert William Singleton Collection is a group of Civil War photographs acquired by Civil War veteran Lindsey M. Gould in the late 19th century as a keepsake of his war experience. The collection includes the work of noted photographers Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, William H. Tipton, and George S. Cook. The collection is organized into four discrete yet interrelated units. The first consists of 79 photographs by Mathew Brady (1823-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821- 1882) of scenes of the Civil War taken between 1861 and 1865. Included are group portraits of generals with their staffs, important wartime sites and activities, and photographs of paintings depicting various skirmishes. While the photographs were taken by Brady and Gardner during the war, the images were printed around 1885 by John Taylor and marketed by the firm of Taylor & Huntington. These photographer-entrepreneurs hoped to capitalize on twenty-fifth anniversary war reunions and commemorations by reissuing the once-familiar views. On the verso of each image is a partial list of the photographs sold by Taylor & Huntington for 75 cents a piece. The second grouping of photographs depicts two views of Abraham Lincoln and portraits of the Lincoln conspirators and their execution. These were also taken by Brady and Gardner during the war and, as with the first group, printed and issued around 1885 by Taylor & Huntington. Of particular rarity are the fourteen photographs of the Lincoln assassination conspirators including portraits of David Herold, George Atzerot, Edward Spangler, two views of Lewis Payne, two views of Michael O'Laughlin, and an unidentified conspirator. Additionally, there is a complete set of three images depicting the execution of Mrs. Surratt and the conspirators taken by Alexander Gardner on July 7, 1865, as well as three of the five known images documenting the execution of Captain Wirtz, the notorious Keeper of Andersonville Prison. Eighty-three cabinet portraits of Confederate Generals and other Southern leaders by George S. Cook (1819-1902) comprise the third section of the collection. Cook was a friend and former employee of Mathew Brady, and he provided E. & H.T. Anthony Co. with portraits from the South, including the first portrait of Colonel Robert Anderson. These portraits may come from sources other than Cook as he purchased competing photographers negatives, issuing them on his mounts. These portraits were taken in the 1860s but printed between 1880 and 1890 when Cook operated his Richmond, Virginia studio at 913 East Main Street. The last grouping of photographs contains 210 images by William H. Tipton (1850- 1929), the self-described "Battlefield Photographer." The imperial-sized photographs depict the numerous monuments erected on the Gettysburg battlefield to honor the soldiers who fought and died in this decisive battle. The photographs date from the 1880s. The Singleton Collection constitutes of one of the most complete historic archives of the Gettysburg monuments. An item-level description for all the images follows in the container list. The Huntington item number appears in the left margin beside each photograph. Where applicable, the photographer's original negative number appears in parentheses at the end of the description. Descriptions appearing in brackets were assigned by the cataloger.
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