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[Richard Taylor]

A portrait of Richard Taylor, CSA. Enlarged directly from the original negative by Brady in the Meserve collection.

GLC01176.02

Ulysses S. Grant, Lt. Gen., USA.

Published by E. & H.T. Anthony of New York from photographic negative in Brady's Nat'l Portrait Gallery. Inscription on the versi reads: "The last and best [illegible]"

GLC01229

[Ulysses S. Grant, Julia and Jesse Grant at City Point, Va.]

Original negative ca. April 1865, discovered in the 1890s by Meserve, 79 Leonard Street, NYC and published. This is a Meserve print. This was likely reprinted in the 1940s. Inscription on verso indicates the photo was taken when Lincoln visited, just...

GLC01260

[Carte de visite, Joseph E. Johnston]

Half-length portrait in profile of Johnston wearing dark civilian clothing. With E. & H.T. Anthony imprint on verso.

GLC01442.08

[Carte de visite photograph of Richard Taylor]

Half length portrait of Richard Taylor wearing civilian clothes. Published from a Brady negative by E. H.T. Anthony.

GLC01442.17

[seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

Large oval seated photograph of President Lincoln taken for Mathew B. Brady. Albumen photograph on original mount with the Brady studio imprint. Hamilton/Ostendorf O-92.

GLC07735

Cabinet card of William T. Sherman

Oval bus portrait, in uniform. Signed in ink on recto. Imprint of Brady, Washington, D.C., on both recto and verso.

GLC07789

Ulysses S. Grant Carte de visite

White mount with purple border. Brady imprint on recto and verso. Three quarter length seated portrait in uniform.

GLC07808.019

Ulysses S. Grant Carte de visite

White mount with faded purple border. Brady imprint on both recto and verso. Verso also contains pencil inscription "1069" (or "1869[?]"), and ink inscription "General Grant," with "General" written in German script. Three quarter length standing...

GLC07808.020

[Vignette of Abraham Lincoln and son Tad]

Reproduction of a photograph taken by Brady. Lincoln and his son are looking at an album of cartes.

GLC07963.02

[Carte de visite of James B. Floyd]

Annotated "Floyd the Thief" on mount and verso. Inscription also reads: James Buchanan Floyd (1806-1863), Va. Gov. Sec. of War. Conf. Gnl."

GLC08671

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Half length bust portrait. Wearing a black dress.

GLC09192.01

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Full length bust portrait. Wearing a dark pattern dress.

GLC09192.02

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Full length bust portrait. Wearing a white pattern dress. Same image as GLC09192.04.

GLC09192.03

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Full length bust portrait. Wearing a white pattern dress. Same image as GLC09192.03.

GLC09192.04

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Full length bust portrait. Wearing a white pattern dress.

GLC09192.05

Carte-de-visite of Mary Todd Lincoln

Brady imprint on verso. Full length bust portrait. Wearing a white pattern dress.

GLC09192.06

[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

Sherman and his Generals

One image entitled, "Sherman and his Generals," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1865. Image is of General Sherman and his generals taken shortly after the end of the war. The label beneath the image identifies the men and their ranks. They are from left...

GLC04172

[Ulysses S. Grant]

Taken at Brady's Washington studio sometime between Mar 9 1866 and July 25. Signed on verso by James Grant Wilson.

GLC04358

[Ulysses S. Grant]

Probably taken at Brady's Washington studio sometime after July 25, 1866.

GLC04359

Harpers Ferry, Va.

Writing on mount misidentifies the scene as Richmond, Va.

GLC05087

[Sassacus-class gunboat]

A print of a photograph taken of a US Navy riverine patrol boat during the Civil War. It is a steam double-ended sidewheel gunboat of what is popularly referred to as the "Sassacus"-class. Built for patroling rivers, many were deployed to Virginia...

GLC05111.01.0043

Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1862. Image is of uniformed men in front of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Headquarters.

GLC05111.01.0047

[Portrait of Major Sidell]

A salt print of a photographic portrait of a man identified as Maj. Sidell. Heavily touched-up by Brady studio artists. Posibly an original painting and not a photograph. Research brings up a William Henry Sidell, born 1810 in New York, NY. Sidell...

GLC05111.01.0054