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D. Appleton & Company, fl. 1861-1880
Halleck, Fitz-Greene.
Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.18
J.E., Tilton, & Co., 1851-1878
Lowell, James Russell.
Tilton imprint on recto. Identified in ink on verso. Vignette half length seated portrait, holding cane. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.19
1864
Truth, Sojourner.
Printed inscription on recto: "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth." Blue two-cent tax stamp and pencil inscription "11902" on verso. Full length standing portrait with walking stick. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.20
Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888
Andrew, John A.
Identified on recto (imprint) and verso (pencil). Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette half length portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.21
Mitchel, Ormsby M.
Identified on verso. Half length portrait in uniform. White mount.
GLC06391.22
[Unidentified]
Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait of an older man in civilian dress. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with red border.
GLC06391.23
Tilton, J.E., fl. 1862
Bonheur, Rosa.
Identified on verso. Three quarter length portrait of Bonheur standing next to a large cow. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with Tilton imprint on verso.
GLC06391.24
[Unidentified ]
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint in verso. Three quarter length portrait of a middle-aged man in civilian dress. Shown in Napoleonic pose. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.25
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing view of an older man in civilian dress with long white beard. White mount with gold border
GLC06391.26
From negative in Brady's Natioal Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait of a woman. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount with gold border .
GLC06391.27
1861-1877
[Carte de visite of Horace Greeley]
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing portrait of a bald, heavyset man in civilian dress. White mount with gold border
GLC06391.28
Bright, John.
Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.29
Charles Taber & Co., fl. 1861-1865
Subdun[?], Benj[amin]
With Charles Taber imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Oval vignette bust portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving?] White mount
GLC06391.30
Oval bust portrait of a middle-aged man. White mount.
GLC06391.31
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher.
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Full length seated portrait of all three. White mount with red border.
GLC06391.32
Bryant, W[illia]m Cullen.
Photograph by A.A. Turner. ; Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait of Bryant as an old man. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.33
Von Humboldt.
Identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with Taber imprint on verso.
GLC06391.34
Burns, Robert.
With Taber imprint on verso. Identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount .
GLC06391.35
Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865
Fessenden, William.
Fredricks imprint on verso. Identification in pencil on verso. Vignette bust portrait in profile, facing proper right. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.36
W., Schaus, ?
Photograph by Duchochois & Klauser. With Schaus imprint on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait of bearded man in profile, facing proper left. Photograph from engraving. White mount
GLC06391.37
Paxson, Chas., fl. 1863-1864
"Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans."
With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso.Portrait of three children wrapped in what appear to be flags. White mount
GLC06391.38
1863
"Rebecca: A Slave Girl from New Orleans."
With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso. Vignette bust portrait of a young girl. White mount
GLC06391.39
Lincoln, Abraham.
With gold border; Fredricks imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait. White mount
GLC06391.40
J. Byerly & Son
With gold border; Bylerly imprint on verso. Oval seated half length portrait of an old woman. White mount
GLC06391.41
Whipple, Amiel W., 1816-1863
Shaw, [?].
With Whipple imprint on verso. Ink inscription on recto: "Col. Shaw, 54th Masstts Regt." Half length seated portrait in uniform. White mount.
GLC06391.42
Carte de visite of B.F. Butler
With gold border; Fredricks imprint on verso. Half length seated portrait of an older man in civilian dress. White mount.
GLC06391.43
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria.
With Taber imprint and identification printed on verso. Vignette bust portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount.
GLC06391.44
From a negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Half length seated portrait of a middle aged man. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.45
Carte de visite of [Ambrose Burnside]
Bust portrait. Photograph from engraving.
GLC06391.46
1861/02/21
Morris, Charles F., fl. 1861-1862
to: "Dear Brother."
Charles wishes his brother would write more as he barely gets two letters per month and asks his brother to thank their mother for the box she sent him. Written at Camp Pierpont
GLC06451.001
1861/08/31
to: George M. Morris.
Charles received Elizabeth's letter and was glad to hear from George. He would like to know if Jesse is in camp.
GLC06451.002
1861/09/20
Charles reports that a boy in his regiment was killed while on picket by an officer of his own company. His general had told the men they will be home by New Years but he does not believe it.
GLC06451.003
1861/10/06
There was a fight and the men had to march 6 miles only to "drill quick" back to cross the "Chane Bridge." He tells his mother and brother that he is going to enlist for 15 years if they approve "for I like to sold[i]er."
GLC06451.004
1861/10/10
to: Susannah L. Morris
Charles is enjoying himself, stating "I hafe [have] a grate [great] [deal] of fune [fun] hear [here] and I hop [hope] you hafe [have] as much at home." He hopes that Susannah is still good friends with William and that George and Mage "will not fall...
GLC06451.005
1861/10/15
Charles is expecting "a bat[t]le hear [here] soon and I do not care how soon fore I would like to fight." Written at Camp Pierpont.
GLC06451.006
1861/10/27
[in another hand] Charles seems content declaring "I have a fine time here." He is cooking for the company and they only drill for an hour a day now. He promises to send Elizabeth and his mother his likeness. George has told him that there are no...
GLC06451.007
1862/01/26
Charles received and appreciated the box his brother sent to him. Written at Camp Pierpont.
GLC06451.008
1862/08/08
to: "Dear brother."
Charles was not hurt but his hat was blown off and his gun knocked out of his hand in battle. The fight was hard and he hopes there won't be another like it soon.
GLC06451.010
to: brother.
Charles is unsure whether he will make it home this winter. He describes the meals the soldiers are served.
GLC06451.011
to: John Morris.
There was a fight and they were close enough to see the Confederates but they were unable to kill any of them.
GLC06451.012
Morris Family
to unknown
List of names with numeric notations written after each. [with Charles Morris' papers]
GLC06451.013
1862/02/09
Morris, George, fl. 1862
to: Wilmor W. Morris.
George tells Wilmor that he saw Tilley Wilson and Jones Stuart who "is s[u]ch a devel of a fool and it is good fun to watch him." George would like to know "if Matt Mitchel [got an] honorable discharge" as he so claims.
GLC06451.014
1862/10/31
George reports that their father is getting better and promises to write Joseph very soon. He sends word to Joseph that "his purty girl Miss E. Talor had a litt[l]e one by old Hicky."
GLC06451.015
1862/06/06
Morris, Jesse M., fl. 1862
Jesse was wounded in the shoulder in the last battle. The steamer is headed for New York and then Pennsylvania but he will try to get a furlough to come home if his shoulder does not heal.
GLC06451.016
7 January 1777
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Lucy Knox
Asks if she has received his previous letter (GLC02437.00511). Details the fighting from 2 January onward. Discusses the American retreat from Trenton, for which the artillery provided cover, Washington's decision to next attack Princeton where...
GLC02437.00514
1861/12/16
Morris, John, fl. 1861-1862
re: John tells his son that the cows "have not done well this season." He asks Wilmor to find out about Charles' debts as "he may want some [money] when he comes home if God spares him." [separate letter on same leaf] George M. Morris. ALS: [s.l.]...
GLC06451.021
1862/02/17
Morris, Joseph W., fl. 1862-1863
Joseph had not heard from Wilmor in over a month. Many people in the neighborhood have been getting married, though no one in his family has, and he imagines that "God's command to Noah 'to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth' is about...
GLC06451.025
1862/03/07
Moms, Joseph W., fl. 1862
Joseph's division is close to the Confederate forts which have fired at the camp but have not hit anyone yet. The soldiers "holler[e]d over to them if they co[ul]d not dew any better than that they had better quit." They are two miles of Yorktown...
GLC06451.027
1862/06/22
Joseph claims that so many of the men in his regiment are sick because of Doctor McFadden, but now they have a new doctor who is much better. Washington was a good doctor but was a drunk, as are so many of the doctors and officers. Joseph's Colonel...
GLC06451.030
1861/09/12
Morris, Wilmor W., fl. 1861-1862
to: Tilley Wilson.
Wilmor has heard that "the battle of yesterday is in our favor…our men took 1300 prisoners and 18 army wagons [but] it may not be true." He was only given "a pair of shoes a gunn a flanel shirt a pair of drawers." His camp moved so that is just...
GLC06451.037
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