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Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Civil War military officers, and related individuals

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1861-1865.
Call number: photPF 2620-2639
Provenance: Acquired from Camac, 1944.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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.

photPF 2495-2619

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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.

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Photographic reproduction of Samuel G. Alschuler's ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln

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Albumen print of an Abraham Lincoln portrait produced as a cabinet photograph, reproduced from an ambrotype made by Samuel G. Alschuler in Urbana, Illinois in 1857. Caption states, "Copyright by W. H. Somers, 1885." Additional caption reads "Beatrice, Campbell, Nebraska". The handwritten inscription on the original backing of the frame that enclosed this card reads, "Photo of Abraham Lincoln. Property of William Haynes Somers. Born Mar 25, 1830 at Rockford, North Carolina. Died March 3, 1912 in El Cajon, Calif, age 82. From Grandma Somers to John Somers Hall - Christmas 1928." There is also a "property of" sticker on the back of the original frame that reads, "John Hall - 4824 Palm Dr. La Canada, California."

photPF 26056

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