Artifacts

Creator

Edward Anthony

Files

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Creator Role

publisher

Description

The CDV features a photograph of a print depicting a portrait image of Ulysses S. Grant. In the portrait, Grant wears a Brigadier General uniform. The four corners of the CDV have been trimmed and rounded.

Contributor

Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams

Approximate Creation Date

n.d.

Measurement

4 X 2 1/2 inches

Materials and Techniques Display

paper (fiber product); albumen process

Inscription

verso, inscribed at top: [?] Grant / [$8.00] verso, backmark: EA verso, inscribed at bottom: "Here Grant appears in his / full dress Brigader's [sic] Generals / uniform as he came to Cairo / to assume command of a / military district including / Southern Illinois / September 4, 1862" / Millers Vol. I

Subjects

Carte de visite photographs; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Work Type

albumen prints ; cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Class

CDVs

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

ID

796

Digital ID

FVW_00796

Current Location

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Vignette Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

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