Visual Materials

United States Army and Navy officer photographs

Image not available

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1861-1892.
Call number: photPF 3276-3299b
Creator: Eldridge, James (1841-1909)

The Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland

Visual Materials

Image of a blank certificate issued by the Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland; portraits of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson, and Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Confederate soldiers on the battlefield during the American Civil War, and Confederate flags accompany certificate text at center surrounded by columns.

priJLC_MIL_000831

Image not available

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

Visual Materials

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.

photPF 2620-2639

Image not available

Photographs of Civil War generals and officers

Visual Materials

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

Image not available

On the victory! : Flags of the allies : insignia of the Army and Navy

Visual Materials

Language: English Place of publication: Chicago (Ill.) Printer(s)/Publisher(s): Herschman & Cardy Notes: With photographs of President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. Pershing, and Vice Admiral William S. Sims copyrighted by Harris & Ewing.

priWWI_S_156

Image not available

Photographs of Confederate States of America army generals and high-ranking officers

Visual Materials

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.

photPF 2920-3275

Image not available

Photographs of United States Navy ships, United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, and the Grand Canyon

Visual Materials

Consists of 12 photographs. photPF 2414-2417 are of Commodore Dewey's U.S.S. Olympia at Manila in 1916, the U.S.S. Charleston in the Panama Canal Zone on September 8, 1916, the U.S.S. Tennessee in the Panama Canal Zone on April 27, 1916, and the U.S.S. Horace X. Baxter at San Pedro in approximately 1915-1930. photPF 2418-2423 depicts the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, California and includes buildings such as the officers' residences, the entrance and gate house, the U.S. Navy Hospital, naval employees, and other federal buildings. photPF 2424-2425 are of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.

photPF 2414-2425

United States Army and Navy officer photographs

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

The Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland

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

Photographs of Civil War generals and officers

On the victory! : Flags of the allies : insignia of the Army and Navy

Photographs of Confederate States of America army generals and high-ranking officers

Photographs of United States Navy ships, United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, and the Grand Canyon