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Taku Forts
1900 ca.
Naval ships navigate through the straits, bombarding the fortifactions on either shore. Commemorates the capture of Taku Forts, June 17 1900. Inscription on verso reads "W.T. Kendall-Brown."
GLC04546.146
[Navy sailor standing]
Shanghai Photo Enlarging Co.
Cabinet card of a sailor in uniform and accompanying sleeve from Shanghai Photo Enlarging Co.
GLC04546.147
[Landscape of Chinese village]
Inscription on mount verso reads " 100 miles above Hankon. Rice fields in the foreground, and "tea country" back on the hills."
GLC04546.151
[Pagoda, Hankon]
Title from inscription on mount verso.
GLC04546.152
[The Bund, Hankon]
Title from inscription on mount verso. The row of trees on the left appear to be Honeylocusts. The trees on the right may be the same, or perhaps oak.
GLC04546.153
Daniel F. Tiemann
1850 ca.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Modern print of carte de visite by Brady-NY, tucked into slits on mount, with note of F.H. Meserve. Inscribed on mount: "Daniel F. Tiemann, mayor of New York. From a negative of M.B. Brady. The Collection of F.H. Meserve."
GLC05188.03
[Cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln]
1861/02-1864/02
Berger, Anthony, fl. 1864
The cabinet card has Brady's imprint on the recto and verso, and is a variant of O-92 without the table and with Lincoln's lower hand cut-off (see Ostendorf p. 176). The negative was taken by Anthony Berger and is the basis for Lincoln on $5 bill...
GLC02910.01
[Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln]
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
The carte de visite is by Gardner, 2/24/1861, republished by Gardner (imprint on verso), O-49 (M-71). It is the same image as GLC00919.01.
GLC02910.02
[Confederate Calvary Sabres]
December 5, 1972
Anderson, Cecil W., fl. 1972
Accompanying photographs of Confederate cavalry sabre in scabbard. Manufactured by Isaac Campbell & Co. of London, at 71 Jermyn Street. Hilt embellished with an eagle and arrows in its talons with foliage. Purchased by William E. Jones in 1862.
GLC02711.08.02
to My Dear Mary
December 17, 1862
O'Connell, John D., fl. 1861-1866
He just fought in the battle of Fredricksburg but came out well. Her cousin David Hancock joined the regiment just before the battle. He heard her brother has joiend the navy. Written near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
GLC02830.55
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