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| Genre/Form: | Cartes de visite Photographic prints Photograph albums Photographs Specimens |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Thomas Hart Benton; Salmon P Chase; Henry Clay; Thomas Corwin; Thomas T Davis; Thomas J Dryer; Sidney T Holmes; Washington Irving; Washington Irving; James Russell Lowell; G W Morgan; John A Nicholson; John G Nicolay; Samuel Osgood; Albert Pike; William Hickling Prescott; Roger A Pryor; Matías Romero; Joseph Story; Thurlow Weed; Martin Welker; Richard Yates |
| Material Type: | Graphic, Photograph |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mathew B Brady; Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries.; E. Anthony (Firm),; E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm),; George S. Tolman (Firm) |
| OCLC Number: | 726402494 |
| Notes: | Possible decade of production suggested by year that E. Anthony business moved to 501 Broadway, New York (May 1, 1860), and year that his brother Henry T. Anthony joined him in business (1862), and firm became known as E. and H.T. Anthony. Title supplied by cataloger. Album contains 39 carte de visite photographs (approx. 16.1 x 10.1 cm), consisting of paper photographs mounted on thin cardboard backs, with printed logo on verso: "Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, N.Y. from photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery." Several portraits are simply signed "M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries, No. 352 Penna. Avenue, Washington, D.C., and New York." Portraits are slipped into sleeves on recto and verso of 25 album leaves, in which a gilt-framed window has been cut. Eleven of the windows are empty. Bound in 19th-century bevelled dark brown pebble-grain leather covers, panelled in blind; gilt spine panels, and gold-stamped spine title "Album" in gothic letters; two large ornamental brass clasps (half of the lower clasp missing); all edges gilt; textured white decorated endpapers. Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, UCLA. |
| Description: | 1 album (39 photographic prints on carte de visite mounts) : albumen, 17 x 13 cm (album) |
Abstract:
Album of carte de visite portraits of political and public figures, probably from the 1860s, most published by E. Anthony or E. and H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, from photographic negatives by Mathew B. Brady's studio, Brady's National Portrait Gallery.
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- Benton, Thomas Hart, -- 1782-1858.
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- Corwin, Thomas, -- 1794-1865 -- Photographs.
- Davis, Thomas T. -- (Thomas Treadwell), -- 1810-1872 -- Photographs.
- Dryer, Thomas J. -- (Thomas Jefferson), -- 1810- -- Photographs.
- Holmes, Sidney T., -- 1815-1890 -- Photographs.
- Irving, Washington, -- 1783-1859 -- Photographs.
- Irving, Washington, -- 1783-1859 -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs.
- Lowell, James Russell, -- 1819-1891 -- Photographs.
- Morgan, G. W. -- (George Washington), -- 1820-1893 -- Photographs.
- Nicholson, John A. -- (John Anthony), -- 1827-1906 -- Photographs.
- Nicolay, John G. -- (John George), -- 1832-1901 -- Photographs.
- Osgood, Samuel, -- 1812-1880 -- Photographs.
- Pike, Albert, -- 1809-1891 -- Photographs.
- Prescott, William Hickling, -- 1796-1859 -- Photographs.
- Pryor, Roger A. -- (Roger Atkinson), -- 1828-1919 -- Photographs.
- Romero, Matías, -- 1837-1898 -- Photographs.
- Story, Joseph, -- 1779-1845 -- Photographs.
- Sunnyside (Tarrytown, N.Y.) -- Photographs.
- Weed, Thurlow, -- 1797-1882 -- Photographs.
- Welker, Martin, -- 1819- -- Photographs.
- Yates, Richard, -- 1815-1873 -- Photographs.
- Politicians -- United States -- Photographs.
- Historians -- United States -- Photographs.
- Judges -- United States -- Photographs.
- Cartes de visite photographs -- Specimens.
