Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 [Photograph album of Major Schuyler Colfax]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04689 Author/Creator: Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Place Written: Various Places Type: Photograph album Date: 1861-1866 circa Pagination: 1 v. : 103 carte de visites Height: 27 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy
Album belonging to Schuyler Colfax with over one hundred cartes des visite of New York, Washington, famous policians and other sights. Includes forty outdoor cartes of New York City by E & H.T. Anthony; 16 of Washington and environs by Gardner and by Gardner & Gibson; 12 of Richmond by George O. Ennis; and 5 of Boston by John Soule; 26 portraits by Anthony (Grant, Farragut, Sherman, etc.), Lee and Jefferson Davis by Vannerson and Jones, etc. The album is full calf with beaded decorations and brass clasp edges with all edges gilt, with silver beads sewn over original leather on cover. The album was assembled during the Civil War by Major Schuyler Colfax (1834-1894) an army engineer in Washington. Most images are identified in ink within the album and some are numbered in an unidentified hand on the verso. The range of outdoor cartes de visite is exceptional. Images of New York include: Broadway, Wall Street, Troops on Broadway for 4th of July, a Mass meeting in Union Square, City Hall, the Tombs [prison], Treasury Building, Brooklyn Ferry, and many scenes of Central Park, hotels, and churches. Images of war-damaged Richmond include: Libby Prison, Castle Thunder, the Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Dutch Gap Canal, the Virginia State Capitol, the Confederate White House and Virginia Hall.
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