D. Appleton & Co. [Nathaniel Lyon]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06447.02 Author/Creator: D. Appleton & Co. Place Written: New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861 May 17 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 10 x 6 cm. Order a Copy
Signed on mount. Handsome image. Image retouched to remove the posing stand (near Lyons' right foot). Imprint on verso. Inscription on verso reads "Killed in battle at Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861. In command of Union forces at St. Louis, (May, 1861); captured Jefferson City & Boonville. Brigadier-General U.S. Volunteers (full rank) May 17, 1861." Accompanied by a salt print of the same image (GLC06447.01).
See "Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865," p. 592. And "A.A. Turner, American photolithographer" (1986), vol. 10, issue 3.
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