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- E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Plate Holder, 1884-1890 -
- 1884-1890
- Collections - Artifact
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Plate Holder, 1884-1890
- Five Confederate Generals in Mexico, 1865 -
- October 09, 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Five Confederate Generals in Mexico, 1865
- E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Lens Mount for Novelette Camera, 1885-1899 -
- 1886-1899
- Collections - Artifact
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Lens Mount for Novelette Camera, 1885-1899
- General William Starke Rosecrans, circa 1861-1865 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Admired politicians or military officers, such as General William Rosencrans, were popular subjects.
- 1861-1865
- Collections - Artifact
General William Starke Rosecrans, circa 1861-1865
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Admired politicians or military officers, such as General William Rosencrans, were popular subjects.
- Union Army Major General John Alexander McClernand, 1862 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Admired politicians or military officers, such as General John Alexander McClernand, were popular subjects.
- 1862
- Collections - Artifact
Union Army Major General John Alexander McClernand, 1862
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Admired politicians or military officers, such as General John Alexander McClernand, were popular subjects.
- View Camera Frame, 1862-1902 -
- 1862-1902
- Collections - Artifact
View Camera Frame, 1862-1902
- E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Albumen Paper, 1870-1890 -
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Albumen Paper, 1870-1890
- U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis, 1858-1860 - U.S. Congressman Jefferson Davis of Mississippi posed for this portrait at Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C., studio. In early 1861, Davis resigned from the Senate, becoming president of the newly formed Confederate States of America. During the Civil War, a New York firm sold Brady photographs of military figures, battlefields, and politicians -- as well as this image of Jefferson Davis.
- 1858-1860
- Collections - Artifact
U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis, 1858-1860
U.S. Congressman Jefferson Davis of Mississippi posed for this portrait at Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C., studio. In early 1861, Davis resigned from the Senate, becoming president of the newly formed Confederate States of America. During the Civil War, a New York firm sold Brady photographs of military figures, battlefields, and politicians -- as well as this image of Jefferson Davis.
- The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln was Shot, Photographed in 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln happened to be sitting in this rocking chair when he was mortally wounded at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Mathew B. Brady made the photograph for his Brady's National Portrait Gallery. At a time before television and internet news, this carte-de-visite helped people visualize events surrounding President Lincoln's death.
- 1865
- Collections - Artifact
The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln was Shot, Photographed in 1865
President Abraham Lincoln happened to be sitting in this rocking chair when he was mortally wounded at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Mathew B. Brady made the photograph for his Brady's National Portrait Gallery. At a time before television and internet news, this carte-de-visite helped people visualize events surrounding President Lincoln's death.
- Man Lying on the Forest Floor, circa 1865 - This carte-de-visite, made around 1865 in New York by the E. & H.T. Anthony photography firm, shows a man lying amid a stand of trees. Cartes-de-visite were small photographic prints on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. Americans commonly collected and exchanged cartes-de-visites, which remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s.
- circa 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Man Lying on the Forest Floor, circa 1865
This carte-de-visite, made around 1865 in New York by the E. & H.T. Anthony photography firm, shows a man lying amid a stand of trees. Cartes-de-visite were small photographic prints on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. Americans commonly collected and exchanged cartes-de-visites, which remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s.