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1861-1865

Rehn, fl. 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: [Charles L. Green., carte de visite]

White mount with Rehn & Hurn imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Charles L. Green." Vignette bust portrait with tinted cheeks.

GLC04187.17

1861-1865

Silsbee, Case & Co.

Photograph

Title: [Admiral Wilkes, U.S. Navy, carte de visite]

White mount with gold border; Silsbee, Case & Co. imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Admiral Wilkes, U.S. Navy." Three quarter length standing portrait in uniform.

GLC04187.18

1861-1865

Broadbent & Co. (photographers)

Photograph

Title: [Capt.Glisson, U.S.N., carte de visite]

White mount with Broadbent & Co. imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Capt.Glisson, U.S.N." Full length standing portrait in uniform, holding sword.

GLC04187.19

1861-1865

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [Capt. S. D. Townshend, U.S.N., carte de visite]

White mount with Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Capt. S. D. Townshend, U.S.N." Vignette half length portrait in uniform. Shown in Napoleonic pose.

GLC04187.20

1861-1865

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [Pay Master Rittenhouse, U.S.N., carte de visite]

White mount with Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Pay Master Rittenhouse, U.S.N." Vignette bust portrait in civilian clothes.

GLC04187.21

1861-1865

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [Capt. S.W. Godon, U.S.N., carte de visite]

White mount with Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil inscription on recto: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Pencil caption from album: "Capt. S.W. Godon, U.S.N." Seated half length portrait in uniform.

GLC04187.22

1862

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [U.S. Steamer Powhattan., carte de visite]

White mount with ink inscription "U.S. Steam Ship Powhattan Augt. 1862," and Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "U.S. Steamer Powhattan." Side view of the ship.

GLC04187.23

1861-1866

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [The 'New Ironsides,'., carte de visite]

White mount with Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "The 'New Ironsides,' destroyed by fire, 1866." Side view of the ship.

GLC04187.24

1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [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

10 August 1950

Meserve, Frederick H., 1865-1962

Pamphlet signed

Title: Abraham Lincoln

Publishing dummy titled "Abraham Lincoln" (made for Meserve's daughter and editor Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, 1950) with 12 photographs inserted by their corners into the leaves. Signed by Meserve. Sub-text on front of wrapper reads "Photographs from the original negatives made in Washingtonby Mathew B. Brady. The negatives are in the Collection of Americana of Frederick Hill Meserve, Litt. D. New York. This booklet was made for Dorothy Meserve Junhardt, my daughter and editor. [signed] August. 10. 1950."

GLC08548.02