This class includes portraits of leading individuals, bucloic nature scenes and other depictions of average life during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Widow Mary Todd Lincoln in Mourning Attire
Seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, in mourning attire, ca. 1869. [Ref: ML, O-25.]
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Seated Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
E. and H. T. Anthony and Mathew Brady
Seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. In the portrait, Lincoln wears a vertical striped gown and holds a floral bouquet. [Ref: ML, O-21.]
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Seated Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Joseph Ward and Mathew Brady
Photograph of an engraving or lithograph featuring a seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. At bottom: [Ref: ML, O-16.]
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Engraved Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Photograph of an engraving. Image features a seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that was originally a photograph taken by Mathew Brady in January 1862. In the image, Mary Todd Lincoln is seated and holds a bouquet of flowers in her proper right hand. [Ref: ML, O-16.]
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Seated Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Tintype in CDV mount featuring a seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. It is a reversed variant of Brady's negative. [Ref: ML, O-16.]
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Seated Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Edward Anthony and Mathew Brady
Seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. Lincoln holds a floral bouquet in her proper right hand and wears a floral wreath in her hair. [Ref: ML, O-16.]
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Seated Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Edward Anthony and Mathew Brady
Seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. Lincoln holds a floral bouquet in her proper right hand and wears a floral wreath in her hair. [Ref: ML, O-16.]
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Standing Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Standing portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln wearing a floral gown. [Ref: ML, O-12.]
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Vignette Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Reproduction of a bust portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. From original photograph taken by Mathew Brady, probably in 1861. [Ref: ML, O-9.]
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Full-length Photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Standing portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln wearing a floral gown. In the portrait, Lincoln stands with her body turned to her proper right. [Ref: ML, O-10.]
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Standing Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew Brady
Standing portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. In the portrait, Lincoln stands with her hands at her front and turned to her proper right. She wears a floral gown and floral wreath in her hair. [Ref: ML, O-10.]
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Vignette Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
E. and H. T. Anthony and Mathew Brady
Seated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. In the portrait, Lincoln is turned to her proper right and wears fresh flowers in her hair and on her dress. [Ref: ML, O-9.]
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Vignette Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln
Joseph Ward and William H. Mumler
Reproduction of an engraving or lithograph featuring a vignette bust portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. [Ref: ML, O-7.]
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African-American Soldiers
The carte de visite features a photograph of a cartoon depicting African-American soldiers.
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The Confederacy in Petticoats.
Landy Photo
The carte de visite features two Union soldiers pursuing Jefferson Davis, who is dressed in women's clothing. A woman stands at the side of the scene and chastises the soldiers.
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I Wish I Was in Dixie
Photograph reproduction of an anti-Abraham Lincoln, anti-abolition cartoon. In the cartoon, Lincoln is shown seated playing "I Wish I Was in Dixie" on a banjo with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his back pocket. It is enclosed in a black mat.
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Seated Portrait of Helen Wise
Charles DeForest Fredricks
The CDV features a seated portrait of Helen Wise, a nineteenth-century actress. In the portrait, Wise is seated wearing a knee-length dress. She holds a cigar in her mouth.
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Eliza Gurney Photograph
Earles' Galleries and Looking Glass
The carte de visite depicts a seated portrait of Eliza Gurney, widow of the English Quaker Joseph J. Gurney, who exchanged letters with Abraham Lincoln on the subject of the will of God during the Civil War.
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Gardner's Last Photograph from Life of Abraham Lincoln
Philip and Solomons and Alexander Gardner
The carte de visite features a portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner on 10 April 1865. This is said to be the last photograph taken of Lincoln from life. [Ref: O-118.] The vignette-style image depicts Abraham Lincoln from the chest up.
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President's house, Carriage Drive
The carte de visite depicts an image of the White House taken from the northeast. The image is mounted on a bronze-bordered card. There is no photographer's markings.
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Lidian Emerson Photograph
The carte de visite depicts a portrait image of Lidian Emerson, social advocate for women's and Native American rights, the abolition of slavery, and the welfare of animals. She was also the second wife of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the portrait, Emerson is shown standing behind a pillar with a veil draped over her hair. This particular manifestation also has some ink damage at the card's front.
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Stephen A. Douglas Portrait
D. Appleton and Co. and J. Gurney and Son
The carte de visite features a portrait of Stephen A. Douglas, an American politician from Illinois and a longtime political rival of Abraham Lincoln. The image depicts Douglas standing with his proper left hand resting on a short pillar.
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Composite Photograph of Abraham Lincoln and Family
The carte de visite features a composite image of Abraham Lincoln and his family, rumored to be based on an 1866 painting by Carpenter. [Ref: O-93.] In the portrait, Lincoln is seated holding a book while Tad looks at the text. This pose is exactly like the one used in the portrait captured by Anthony Berger on 9 February 1864. Mary Todd Lincoln sits to Lincoln's proper right while Robert stands in the background.
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Vignette Photograph of Edward Dickinson Baker
Charles De Forest Fredricks
The carte de visite depicts a vignette portrait image of Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, an English-born American politician, lawyer, and military leader.
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Lincoln and Tad Study a Brady Album
Joseph Ward and Anthony Berger
The carte de visite features a photograph of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad Lincoln taken by Anthony Berger on 9 February 1864. The photograph is one of the more popular images of Lincoln and is one of the only to show the President wearing his spectacles. [Ref. O-93A.] In the photograph, Lincoln sits with Tad by his side and an album in his lap. The pair gaze down at the album.
