U.S. Civil War, 1860 - 1920

File — Box: 2

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Scope and Contents

Tanner and Vanness, Lynchburg, VA: Vignetted head of Jos. E. Johnston, Confederate States Army, ca 1860-65. No HP# / 007584
No imprint: Confederate Army General Sterling Price, vignetted bust portrait, ca 1864. HP.1978.02 / 74181
No imprint: copy of painting by Ferris: “Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis),” 1865. HP.1978.02 / 74182
L. Nagel, Hoboken, NJ: Seated man on fringed chair in studio setting, with arm in cast, possibly wounded in the Civil War, ca 1860s. HP.1979.10 / 78701
No imprint: ¾ vignetted portrait of Abraham Lincoln, ca 1860. HP.1979.36 / 87137
(Copy by) Joseph Ward, Boston, MA: Abraham Lincoln, vignetted ¾ view, ca 1863. HP.1979.36 / 87138
No imprint: Mary Todd Lincoln, vignetted ¾ bust length portrait, ca 1860-65. HP.1979.36 / 87139
No imprint: ¾ vignetted portrait of U.S. Army general Ulysses S. Grant, 1860s. HP.1979.36 / 87140
No imprint: ¾ vignetted portrait of U.S. Army general Ulysses S. Grant, 1860s. HP.1979.36 / 87141
No imprint: Jefferson Davis, ca 1860s. HP.1982.81 / 103029
Gihon and Rixon [John L. Gihon (1839-18780], Philadelphia, PA: Vignetted head of Black man with small beard, ca 1863-63. Front imprint identifies subject as “Robert Small [sic], Pilot of the Steamer Planter, Charleston, SC” and states that image is under 1862 copyright in Pennsylvania by McAllister and Brother, Philadelphia [a long-standing dealership in optical and scientific instruments.] Small back imprint; this studio partnership is recorded only in 1862-63. [Research show the subject to be Robert Smalls (1839-1915), who was a slave assigned to pilot duty on the steamboat Planter in Charleston harbor. In April 1862, he and other Black crewmen brought his family aboard in absence of the captain and made away with the boat, taking it past various sentries and Fort Sumter, and turned it and its artillery cargo over to the Union forces. He was awarded a large sum by President Lincoln and made a pilot, and later Captain, in the U.S. Navy and assigned back to Charleston. This picture reflects his celebrity at the time, but his later career is more important in terms of Black history, including his participation in two South Carolina constitutional conventions, service in both houses of the state legislature, service in four congresses of the United States, service in the state militia to the ultimate rank of major-general, and appointment as port collector of Beaufort, S.C. (serving until 1913). HP.2001.13 / 186754
[M. B. Mathew Brady Studio (without imprint)]: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant (at the time of his promotion), 1864. HP.2001.05 / 201328
Charles D. Fredericks, New York: Commodore William D. Porter, U.S. Navy, ca 1862. HP.2001.05 / 201349
Charles D. Fredericks, New York: Major General George B. McClellan, U.S. Army, and Mrs. Ellen (Mary) McClellan, 1862. HP.2001.05 / 201350
Charles D. Fredericks, New York: Major General Joseph Hooker, U.S. Army, 1864. HP.2001.05 / 201351
Charles D. Fredericks, New York: Lt. General Winfield Scott, West Point, New York, June 10, 1862. HP.2003.31 / 201617
Napoleon Sarony, New York: Vice Admiral David G. Farragut, ca 1864-65; 2-cent revenue stamp on back. HP.2003.31 / 201623
Napoleon Sarony, New York: Vice Admiral David G. Farragut, ca 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201624
George E. Kelly, Boston, MA: Edward Austin Stearns in uniform for Artillery Company A, ca 1870s. HP.2003.31 / 201652
Prescott and Gage, Hartford, CT: Civil War “Battle Laureate” poet Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872), ca 1865-70. Wrote the major poetic work on Farragut in Battle of Mobile Bay. HP.2003.31 / 201653
Partridge, Bridgeport, CT: Vignetted head of young man in uniform cap, “Abraham G. Jennings—Enlarged from a small picture taken in March 1864.” Evidently a member of the noteworthy Jennings family of Fairfield, CT. HP.2003.31 / 201654
Metcalf and Weldon [Franklin Metcalf and John A. Weldon], “Successors to Whipple,” Boston, MA: Army officer standing by studio column, holding an infant, ca 1860s. HP.2003.31 / 201655
John H. Young (b. 1832), Baltimore, MD: Group of four men in Army uniforms (2 lieutenants, 1 colonel, 1 private) and one civilian, in studio setting of army camp, ca 1863. HP.2003.31 / 201656
[Published by Joseph Ward, Boston, MA]: Vignetted head of Major General Phillip Sheridan (1831-1888) with beard, 1860s. HP.2003.31 / 201676
No imprint: Montage of “Lincoln and Family” [partly based on A. Berger’s 1864 portrait of Lincoln looking at a book with son Tad, with some figures completely drawn in], ca 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201735
William H. Mumler, [the noted “Spirit Photographer”], Boston, MA: Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, ca 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201736
No imprint: Negative silhouette image of “Tomb and Shade of George Washington,” ca 1860s. HP.2003.31 / 201737
Teague, Lewiston, ME: Copy of painting, “Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis)” version with welcoming angels, 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201738
Philadelphia Photo. Company, from painting by S. J. Ferris: “Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis),” 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201739
A. E. Alden, Providence, RI: Miniature albumen prints in embossed decorative card: Lincoln and Washington, ca 1865. HP.2003.31 / 201740
No imprint: Admiral John A. Dahlgren, ¾ vignetted bust portrait, ca 1860s. PA-MU-246 / 201741
No imprint: cut ellipse albumen print of Abraham Lincoln, tipped in to embossed card, ca 1865. PA-MU-246 / 201742
Philadelphia Photo. Company, Philadelphia, PA: Copy of painting by Ferris: “Washington and Lincoln (Apotheosis),” 1865. PA-MU-246 / 201743
O. H. Willard, Philadelphia, PA: Unidentified young boy in uniform, with rifle and cap nearby in studio setting, ca 1850-65. No HP# / 201760

Dates

1860 - 1920

Access Restrictions

Researchers may examine original material under supervised conditions in the Reading Room upon approval of request. There are no copy restrictions.

Extent

From the Class: 3.5 Linear Feet (The collection consists of over 1000 photographs, including approximately 1.5 linear feet of European images, 1 linear foot of United States and Canadian images, and 1 linear foot of images in the following subject groups: New Mexico, Latin America, Africa, Asia, U.S. Civil War, and Native American subjects.)