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- Portrait of the Artist, Henry Peters Gray, circa 1870 - American painter Henry Peters Gray posed for this carte-de-visite around 1865. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- circa 1870
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Portrait of the Artist, Henry Peters Gray, circa 1870
American painter Henry Peters Gray posed for this carte-de-visite around 1865. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair", 1854 - Stephen Collins Foster became the first American composer to earn his livelihood solely by writing songs. Foster's memorable melodies blended the musical traditions of British and African Americans. Foster's songs, including "Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at Home," "Camptown Races," and "My Old Kentucky Home," have become classics that are still widely known and sung today.
- 1854
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"Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair", 1854
Stephen Collins Foster became the first American composer to earn his livelihood solely by writing songs. Foster's memorable melodies blended the musical traditions of British and African Americans. Foster's songs, including "Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at Home," "Camptown Races," and "My Old Kentucky Home," have become classics that are still widely known and sung today.
- Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, circa 1870 - An outspoken leader of the early women's rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) is perhaps best remembered for her contributions to the fight for women's suffrage, or equal voting rights. Stanton was a powerful strategist and writer. She influenced her contemporaries and later suffragists, laying the groundwork for the ratification of a constitutional amendment that guaranteed women suffrage in 1920.
- circa 1870
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Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, circa 1870
An outspoken leader of the early women's rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) is perhaps best remembered for her contributions to the fight for women's suffrage, or equal voting rights. Stanton was a powerful strategist and writer. She influenced her contemporaries and later suffragists, laying the groundwork for the ratification of a constitutional amendment that guaranteed women suffrage in 1920.