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1861-1865 ca.
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va
E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. A black woman holding a basket stands in front of the slave pen. Two men stand behind the iron gate.
GLC05137.076
1885 ca.
Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), (c. 1849-1893)
[Frederick Douglass]
Inscribed on front "Frederick Douglass. Born 1817." Inscribed verso: "Frederick Douglass. Born February 1817." With newspaper obituary pasted on the back. The albumen surface has been slightly scratched.
GLC05146
1862
Anthony, Edward (1819-1888)
Irving, Washington.
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait. [Photograph from painting or engraving.?] White mount with red border
GLC06391.17
1905
Underwood & Underwood
President Roosevelt and Booker Washington reviewing the 61 "Industry" floats .
Roosevelt and Washington are in the center of the picture, flanked by a sizable crowd. A lone black man stands guard in the foreground.
GLC06449.43
1861-1877
Parker, Richard
[Carte de viste of John Brown taken by James M. Holmes]
GLC09190.10
1864 ca.
Brady, Mathew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
[Barbara Fietchie at the Great Central Fair]
Barbara Frietchie gained fame for telling T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson to harm her rather than the Union flag at the time he entered Frederick, Maryland. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the poem in Nov. 1863 and it was printed with the carte to...
GLC02909
1864 February
[Carte de visite portraits of Lincoln and son Tad]
Photograph of Lincoln looking at a book with Tad. Variant of O-93 (looks like "bible" variant listed by Ostendorf p. 183 but with more vignette and cropping into an oval) with Brady imprint on mount and on verso.
GLC02911.01
1860-1865
Civil War Collection of 49 photographs [decimalized]
Various stereocard and other smaller photograph prints, most unmounted, relating to the Civil War in Virginia. The images come from Thomas G. Knight, who worked in Brady's studios (it is said) as a teenager. Included are images of Gettysburg...
GLC03029
circa 1865
Unknown
[montage of lawmakers who voted for the 13th Amendment]
montage of lawmakers who voted for the 13th Amendment, George May Powell.
GLC00687.053
1864
Snyder Studio
[Delevan Bates]
Cabinet portrait of Delavan Bates in uniform by the Snyder Studio. Inscription on verso reads: "Brig. Gen. Delavan Bates/MOH [Medal of Honor] at Crater/121st NY Infantry/Cabinet/Signed $125.00." Bates was Union Brevet Brig. Gen., 30th U.S. Colored...
GLC02068
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