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[A. L. Wheat, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Imprint of Stanton's Gallery on verso. Ink inscription on verso: "A.L. Wheat, Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y." Ink inscription on recto: "Yours Truly, A.L. Wheat, Q.M. Sergt. 50th N.Y.V.E., April 15, 1860." Vignette bust...

GLC00919.24.24

[Louis Bernkopf, carte de visite]

White mount. Ink inscription on verso: "Louis Bernkopf aus Camenz [Kamenz], Preuss[…?] Sohle[?]ien, [G]ermany." Ink inscription on recto: "Louis Bernkopf." Three quarter length seated portrait in 15th N.Y.S. Vols. Uniform holding a book in one...

GLC00919.24.09

[carte de visite, oval bust profile view]

White mount with Selby & McCauley imprint on verso: " 'Specialite.' Selby & McCauley, Photograph Album & Carte de Visite Depot, No. 36 West Baltimore Street." Oval bust profile view in elaborate dress. Face, clothing, and adornments in hair are...

GLC00919.24.44

[Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Imprint of Brady on recto and verso. Ink inscripton on recto: "Genl. Kilpatrick." Full length standing view in military dress.

GLC00919.24.16

[carte de visite, Portage Bridge]

White mount. Printed caption on recto: "Portage Bridge." Ink inscription on recto: "234 ft. high, 800 ft. long." Illegible notes on verso in blue pencil. View of a bridge with a locomotive crossing the top. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.51

[H. A. Noble, carte de visite]

White mount. Ink inscription on verso: "Yours muchly, H. A. Noble." Three quarter length seated portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.19

[carte de visite, Home on Furlough]

White mount with printed caption on verso: "Home on a Furlough." Scene of a soldier being welcomed home by his exuberant family. Photo from painting or engraving.

GLC00919.24.54

[carte de visite, bust portrait in civilian dress]

Light orange mount with gold border. Bust portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.27

[W. R. Smith, carte de visite]

White mount. Imprint of Bell & Brother on verso. Signed in ink on verso by Smith. Full length view in civilian dress standing next to a pedestal.

GLC00919.24.22

[carte de visite, three quarter length seated portrait in military dress]

White mount with Cline imprint on recto. Three quarter length seated portrait in military dress holding engineer's hat.
34. Ph: J. Morgan, Concord,

GLC00919.24.33

[Arthur B. Avery, carte de visite]

White mount. Signed "Yours truly, Arthur B. Baker" in ink on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait in civilian clothes.

GLC00919.24.01

[carte de visite, full length standing portrait in military dress]

White mount with gold border. Full length standing portrait in military dress with sword. Backdrop depicts a painted camp scene.

GLC00919.24.36

[tintype, oval bust portrait of a young woman]

Unmounted. Oval bust portrait of a young woman.

GLC00919.24.42

[H. M. Browley, carte de visite]

White mount with purple border. Imprint of C.D. Fredericks on verso. Inscriptions on recto: "Yours truly, H. M. Browley" (in ink); "Died May 1867" (in pencil). Vingette bust portrait in civilian dress with beard.

GLC00919.24.10

[carte de visite, full length view]

White mount. Full length view of a young woman in peasant dress carrying wheat or straw on her back.

GLC00919.24.45

[J. Franklonfort, Jr., carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Franklonfort signed in ink on verso. Full length standing portrait in [military?] dress, with hat placed on the chair beside him.

GLC00919.24.14

[Seth Kuman, carte de visite]

White mount. Imprint of Cline on recto, pencil inscription on verso: "Seth Kuman." Three quarter length seated portrait in civilian dress with gold painted buttons and gold ring on little finger.

GLC00919.24.17

[carte de visite, chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers]

White mount with gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Inscribed on negative: "Chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers, near Petersburg, Va. Built by Co. "F" of that Regt. Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Private 15th N.Y.V. Engineers...

GLC00919.24.52

[carte de visite, The Belle of Winter]

White mount. Caption on image: "The Belle of Winter." Profile view of a woman ice skating in fur-trimmed clothes. Photo from painting or engraving.

GLC00919.24.55

Union Martyrs

White mount with gold border. Imprint of E. & H.T. Anthony on verso. Collage of 17 Union officers killed in the Civil War, including Reynolds, McPherson, Hayes, Sedgwick, and Stevens.

GLC00919.24.25

[carte de visite, close-up bust portrait in civilian dress]

White mount with Mosher imprint on recto and verso. Close-up bust portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.28

[carte de visite, vignette bust portrait]

White mount with purple border and Jordan & Co. imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait.

GLC00919.24.31

[carte de visite, three quarter length seated portrait in military dress]

White mount with gold border on recto; Morgan imprint on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait in military dress.

GLC00919.24.34

[Martin P. Baker, carte de visite]

White mount with brown/red border. Inscribed twice in both ink and pencil on verso: "Martin P. Baker, Jaysville, Darke Co., Ohio." Three-quarter length seated portrait in Union uniform.

GLC00919.24.02

[carte de visite, full length standing portrait in civilian dress]

White mount with gold border. Full length portrait in civilian dress with beard standing next to an ornate chair.
38.

GLC00919.24.37

[tintype, three quarter length]

Unmounted. Three quarter length view in civilian dress facing proper right. Pants are light colored fabric with a dark strip down the side.

GLC00919.24.40

[carte de visite, oval half length portrait of a young woman]

White mount with gold border. Pencil inscription "Nora" on both recto and verso. Romanticized oval half length portrait of a young woman. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.43

[Channing Clapp, carte de visite]

White mount. Ink inscription on recto: "Channing Clapp, Capt and [illegible]." Vignette bust portrait in military dress.

GLC00919.24.12

[carte de visite, vignette of the front of a two-story house during winter]

White mount. Vignette of the front of a white two-story house during winter.

GLC00919.24.46

[H. M. Hannay, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Signed in ink by Hannay on recto. Stamp of Fowx on verso, along with ink inscription: "Bemis Heights, Saratoga Co., N.Y." Vignette bust portrait with beard.

GLC00919.24.15

[carte de visite, late residence of Jefferson Davis]

White mount. Inscribed on negative: "Late residence of Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Va., Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Draughtsman, Hd. Qrs Engineer Brigade." Sketched view of the front and side of Davis's home.

GLC00919.24.50

[carte de visite, chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers]

White mount with gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Blurred and damaged print of image #52.

GLC00919.24.53

[General George Henry Thomas, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Imprint of E & H.T. Anthony on verso. Vignette bust view. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.23

[tintype, bust portrait]

Yellow carte de visite mount with embossed border. Bust portrait.

GLC00919.24.26

[carte de visite, vignette bust portrait in civilian dress]

White mount with blue two-cent tax stamp on verso. Vignette bust portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.29

[A. H. Rathbun, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Imprint of Brady on recto and verso. Signed in ink on verso by Rathbun. Three quarter length seated portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.21

[carte de visite, half length seated portrait in civilian dress]

White mount with Pond's imprint and blue two-cent tax stamp on verso. Half length seated portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.32

55 unidentified miscellaneous cartes de visite [decimalized]

Collection consists of 55 photographs, largely dating from the Civil War period, and primarily connected with the N.Y. Volunteer Engineers. The majority of the images are carte de visite portraits, although the collection also includes several...

GLC00919.24

[carte de visite, full length standing portrait in military dress]

White mount with three one-cent tax stamps on verso. Full length standing portrait in military dress holding hat.

GLC00919.24.38

[carte de visite, vignette bust portrait of a young woman or girl]

White mount with Knight's imprint on recto. Vignette bust portrait of a young woman or girl.

GLC00919.24.41

[carte de visite, Grant's headquarters]

White mount with ink inscription on recto: "Lieut-General Grants HdQuarters, Winter of 1864 [and] 5, City Point, Va." Inscribed on negative: "Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Private 15th N.Y.V. Engr." Sketched view of a quadrangle surrounded by winter...

GLC00919.24.48

[carte de visite, vignette bust portrait]

White mount with Douglass & Co. imprint on recto. Ink inscription "1864-5" beneath image. Vignette bust portrait.

GLC00919.24.30

[carte de visite, Grant's headquarters]

White mount with faded gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Same image as #48.

GLC00919.24.49

[Richard O. Burke, carte de visite]

White mount. Imprint of Addis Gallery on verso, along Burke's ink inscription: "Truly your friend Richard O. Burke," and in a different hand, "Quarter Master 15th Regt. N.Y.V. Engineers, Engineer Brigade, Army of the Potomac." Half length seated...

GLC00919.24.11

[carte de visite, front view of a chapel]

White mount with gold border and Gardner's imprint on verso. Published by Philip & Solomons, Washington, D.C. Front view of the chapel erected in the camp of the 50th Regiment, N.Y.V. Engineers near Petersburg, Va. Unions soldiers are visible...

GLC00919.24.47

[carte de visite, two veterans]

White mount with Masury imprint and pencil inscription "Two Vetrans [sic] of 1864" on verso. Full length standing portrait of two veteran seamen in military dress. Man on left is missing both arms, and man on right is wearing glasses or goggles.

GLC00919.24.35

[H. W. Benham, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Stamp of Fowx and ink inscription on verso: "April 9 1865." Ink inscription on recto: "H. W. Benham." Three quarter length seated portrait in military dress.

GLC00919.24.07

[William H. Preston, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Ink inscription on recto: "Yours truly, Wm. H. Preston." Ink inscription on verso: "Wm. H. Preston, Rutland, Mass." Second ink inscription on verso in a different hand: "August 5, 1865." Three quarter length seated...

GLC00919.24.20

[Louis Bernkopf, tintype]

White mount with embossed star border. Ink inscription on verso: "Louis Bernkopf, 15th N.Y.S.V. Engineer, [illegible], Elias W. Beach, City Point, Va., Headquarters on February, 1865." Full length portrait of Bernkopf in military dress, standing...

GLC00919.24.08

[Alex F. Dix, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Ink inscription on verso: "Alex. F. Dix, Midway, Ala., Dec. 10, 1866." Vignette half length portrait in civilian dress.

GLC00919.24.13

[E. W. Beach, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Signed in ink on recto with inscription "1865-6." Inscription in ink on verso: "Medina, K.Y., 15 January 1866." Vignette bust portrait.

GLC00919.24.03

[E. W. Beach, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Signed in ink on verso "Your devoted brother, E.W. Beach, Williamsville, N.Y., April 16, 1868." Vignette bust portrait with beard. Same image as #5.

GLC00919.24.04

[E. W. Beach, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Vignette bust portrait with beard. Same image as #4.

GLC00919.24.05

[Napolean I, carte de visite]

White mount. Pencil inscription on verso: "March 15, 1868." Vignette bust portrait of Napoleon. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.18

[E. W. Beach, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border. Vignette bust portrait with beard. Similar to images 4 and 5.

GLC00919.24.06

[tintype, half length profile]

Unmounted. Half length profile view facing proper left with white coat and straw hat with black band. Cheeks are tinted pink.

GLC00919.24.39