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1963
Bachrach, Fabian (1917- )
[John F. Kennedy photograph with printed signature]
Portrait of Kennedy in a pinstripe suit, pictured from the chest up.
GLC04675.37
circa 1861-1866
Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885)
[Photograph album of Major Schuyler Colfax]
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...
GLC04689
1881
Jarvis, J.F.
[White House]
By J.F. Jarvis of Washington. White House as seen from the North Lawn. Inscribed "President's House" on verso.
GLC04746
circa 1918
unknown, fl. 1918;
[Photograph of U.S.S. George Washington]
One sepia-tone silver gelatin print of the ship that transported President Woodrow Wilson to Europe to sign the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. Co-signed by President Wilson, Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Captain Edward...
GLC04993
circa 1925
Unknown
[Henry Ford]
Signed photograph of a middle-aged Henry Ford by an unknown photographer. Ford signed over his jacket lapel.
GLC02684
circa 1861-1865
[Albumen of William E. Jones]
Image of William E. "Grumble" Jones in military uniform. Does not show sufficient detail to include the rank on his shoulder strap.
There is a younger photograph of Jones in military dress in the Library of Congress.
GLC02711.07
1972 December 5
Anderson, Cecil W.
[Confederate Calvary Sabres]
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
1873 ca.
[Cabinet photograph of Cassius Marcellus Clay]
Bust length 3/4 profile of Cassius Marcellus Clay, signed on image "C.M. Clay." Noted as Ae[tat] 73. Inscription on verso list Clay's birth and death year, 1810-1903.
GLC02720
circa 1878
Bradley & Rulofson.
[Cabinet photograph of Joshua Abraham Norton]
Signed "Emperor Norton." Three-quarter profile photograph of a seated Norton. He is wearing an officer's uniform.
GLC02729.01
1865
[Carte de visite of Nancy Jones]
Inscribed "Mother" with imprint of Burnett's Gallery on verso.
GLC02739.160
25 September 1865
[Carte de visite of Joseph Jones]
Inscribed "Father" with cancelled tax stamp on verso.
GLC02739.161
no date
[Tintype of Joseph Jones]
GLC02739.162
1861-1877
unidentified woman in dress
Most likely Adeline Burpee.
GLC02744.276
Unidentified woman
Her hair is pulled back and she wears a button down dress.
GLC02745.103
1861 April
[photograph of William Rhodes Wilder]
Inscription on enclosure: "William Rhodes Wilder, April 1861. Age 17 years."
GLC02750.329
Ghirardini, N.
[photograph of Frank John Wilder]
GLC02750.330
[photograph of Major Jacob Babbitt]
GLC02750.331
December 1891
[photograph of Sanondess A. Jenks under a tree on the Tobey farm]
GLC02750.333
[ambrotype of a young woman on glass]
GLC02750.334
[photograph of a woman]
GLC02750.335
[photograph of a horse]
Labeled "my skip."
GLC02750.336
[photograph of a road]
GLC02750.337
1916 April 30
[photograph of Sanondess A. Jenks]
GLC02750.338
[photograph of a house]
Labeled "The house of the far famed General Maneul [Paley]"
GLC02750.339
[photograph of sand dunes]
Labeled "Sand dunes some thirty or fifty meters in height and reaching as far as the eye can reach..."
GLC02750.340
1875-1880 ca.
H. Rocher
[Cyrus H. McCormick]
Cabinet photograph of Cyrus H. McCormick. Signed on mount. Image by H. Rocher of Chicago.
GLC01451
1887
McKecknie & Oswald
[Rutherford B. Hayes]
Cabinet photograph of Hayes by McKecknie & Oswald of Toledo, Ohio. Signed and dated by Hayes on the mount.
GLC01452
1868
Upton & Simson
[Carte de visite of Millard Fillmore]
Signed and dated by Fillmore once on the mount and again on the verso.
GLC01455
1870 ca.
George C. Rockwood
[Carte de visite portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse]
GLC01493
1864/06 ca.
Brisbin, James S. (James Sanks) (1837-1892)
Photograph of Brisbin in Brigadier General uniform [damaged]
Brisbin fought at Gettysburg. (Photograph damaged.)
GLC01504.04
1867-1884 ca.
Rogers
[Harriet Beecher Stowe's winter home]
Cabinet card showing the winter home of the Stowes with four people sitting on the front lawn, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Professor Calvin Stowe. Inscription on verso states the house has been torn down. Inscribed "For my...
GLC01584.02
1870-1880 ca.
Hastings (fl. 1880)
[Harriet Beecher Stowe]
Side profile image of Stowe as an older woman. Signed by Stowe beneath the image. Photographed by Hastings. "Dunbar" is written in the upper-left corner.
GLC01584.03
1883/11/21 ca.
Gutekunst, Frederick (1831-1917)
Cabinet portrait of Ulysses S. Grant
Image signed on mounted and dated (in a different hand Nov. 21. 1883, New York. Image from Philadelphia.
GLC01635
1882 ca.
Grover Cleveland
Cabinet photograph portrait of Grover Cleveland from circa 1882.
GLC01680
1898
Rockwood, George Gardner (1832-1911)
[Cabinet photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in Rough Rider uniform]
Three-quarter length photogravure portrait of Roosevelt in "Rough Rider" uniform, with hat, gloves, and glasses.
GLC01681
circa 1784-1830
Rochard, fl. 1784-1830
Mrs. C.H. White
One photonegative of Christine St. Barbe.
GLC01795.101
Rochard, fl. 1784-1830;
Mrs. David William Gregorie
One photonegative of Eleanor White, wife of David Gregoire.
GLC01795.102
James Gregorie
One photo negative of James Gregoire, inventor of the reflecting telescope.
GLC01795.103
Captain Gregorie
One photonegative of Charles Gregoire, husband of Catharine S. Gregoire.
GLC01795.104
circa 1784-1840
Charles Gregorie
One photo negative of Charles Gregoire.
GLC01795.105
David William Gregorie
One photo negative of David Gregoire.
GLC01795.106
Catharine Macaulay Graham
One photo negative of an engraving of Catharine Macaulay with her birth and death dates.
GLC01795.107
George Gregorie
One photo negative of George Gregoire.
GLC01795.108
Rochard
[Glass plates of Macaulay family members]
As per written instructions on original packing boxes (order may differ):
Catharine S. Macaulay [Graham] engraving, with birth and death dates
Captain Gregorie (married Catharine Sophia Macaulay, daughter of Mrs. Catharine Macaulay)
Mrs. David...
GLC01795.109
n.d.
Ames, Joseph (1816-1872)
[James T. Brady]
Photograph of a portrait painting of Brady by Joseph Ames held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
GLC01822.03
1905 ca.
[Richard P. Hobson]
Signed on mount.
GLC02494.04
circa. 1906
Harris & Ewing
[Photograph of James Sherman]
Photograph of James Sherman. Sherman is wearing a suit and tie, and looking directly at the camera. The signatures of the photographers, Harris and Ewing, are written in pencil at the bottom of the border of the photograph. See one Sherman's letter...
GLC02512.11.02
[Reproduction of a vignette bust portrait of Thomas A. McParlin]
GLC02649.46
Photographed closer up and at a more advanced age than in GLC02649.46.
GLC02649.47
[View of an interior of a Civil War era hospital with patients]
Reproduced photograph of a hospital interior, possibly one that Dr. Thomas A. McParlin oversaw.
GLC02649.48
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