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[Seated portrait of Andrew Johnson]

Full-length seated portrait of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States. Johnson is seated next to a small round table with a statue on it. The same chair and table are also featured in several Gardner photographs of President Lincoln...

GLC05111.01.0475

Honorable Mr Pitt Fessenden, 1/2 length oval portrait.

Inscription on verso: "Hon Mr Pitt Fessenden."

GLC05111.01.0573

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the left side with a tree in left foreground and soldier standing on guard next to two men seated on porch. Numeric Notation on verso: "64."

GLC05111.01.0746

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Maryland." Front of house from the right side with trees in foreground and soldiers standing and sitting infront of house. Numeric Notation on verso: "70."

GLC05111.01.0747

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with family seated on bench.

Inscription on verso: "Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." A family of three sits on a bench on the lands of the Blair estate, next to a path with the servants' quarters in view. Numeric notation on verso: "43."

GLC05111.01.0748

Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland, with reliquary.

Inscription on verso: "At Blair's House Silver Spring, Md." The covered reliquary of a statue of Apollo on the grounds of the Blair House with low stone wall behind and houses in background. Numeric notation on verso: "132."

GLC05111.01.0749

Ruins of the Blair House at Silver Spring, Maryland.

Inscription on verso: "Ruins of Mr. Blairs House." The burned-out remains of the Blair House. Numeric notation on verso: "28."

GLC05111.01.0750

Edwin M. Stanton [split stereocard]

Image of Edwin S. Stanton seated and looking directly at the camera. Numeric notation on image: "2208." Inscription on image: "Edwin S. [sic?] Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War."

GLC05111.01.1227

Vignette bust portrait of Lincoln's first Attorney General

Graphite inscription on verso "Bates Atty General under Lincoln." Photographers imprint on verso: "Alexander & Stevens Photographers, Morristown, N.J."

GLC05111.02.0068

Standing full view of Lincoln's Post-Master General

Graphite inscription on verso "Montgomery Blair."

GLC05111.02.0073

Vignette bust portrait of Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury

Ink inscription on label pasted on recto "Secretary Chase."

GLC05111.02.0076

Profile view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of the Treasury, 1864

Graphite inscription on verso "Given by S.S. Feb. 1861" "Fessenden."

GLC05111.02.0086

Carte de visite of a trimmed oval head view of Lincoln's Secretary of State

Amateur mounting on card stock. Graphite inscription on verso "Seward.'

GLC05111.02.0095

Carte de visite [view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War from the waist up]

GLC05111.02.0104

Carte de visite bust view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War

Stanton's hair appears slicked back. Graphite inscription on verso "Stanton - Sect. of War Edwin M." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0105

Vignette frontal portrait of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

GLC05111.02.0109

Full standing portrait of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

Graphite inscription on verso "**Book" "Welles Sec. of Navy" "Keefer." Ink inscription on verso "Welles Sec. Navy" "8." Photographers imprint on label on verso: "Earles' Galleries & Looking Glass Ware-Rooms 816 Chestnut St Philadelphia."

GLC05111.02.0111

[List of letters sent from Samuel F. B. Morse to Edward P. Fry]

Lists dates and places written of five letters sent from Morse to Fry concerning the formation of a telegraph line from New York to Philadelphia in 1844. Note at bottom states that other letters from 1870 were included in order to make a book of...

GLC04503.08

[Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hays]

Inscription on verso reads "[illegible] 2nd Lt. U.S. Grant. Alex Hayes, 4th Infantry, USA. Camp Salubrity, La. 1845-. 1864 - Liuetenant General U.S. Grant. Brigadier General Alex Hays. Written at Camp Salubrity.

GLC04504.01

[William T. Sherman]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of William T. Sherman in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant on verso, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.02

[James B. McPherson]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of James B. McPherson in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.03

to Edwin M. Stanton

Written by General Halleck as commander of the Department of the Mississippi to Stanton as Secretary of War. Has heard that the rebels are building one or more riverboats "clad in rail road iron like the Merrimac." Says if it is true they can wreak...

GLC04536

Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady. [word processed inventory available]

Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, emancipated people, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages...

GLC04609

to George Wood

Thanks Wood for sending a letter written by Secretary of State William H. Seward concerning a petition for government aid in constructing an overland international telegraph line. Remarks upon the rapid progress of the telegraph throughout the world...

GLC04080

to C. B. Mervin

Written from Headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corps. Informs Captain [Mervin?], Assistant Adjutant General, that he was appointed Brigadier General, as informed by a letter signed 17 August 1863 by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War....

GLC04182.04