[Photograph] album, 1860,1900.

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[Photograph] album, 1860,1900.

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Fat volume with red velvet, gold trim, and four white half balls on each cover. The color of the velvet on the top cover has faded to brown. Fancy gold locks with two ivy leaves on each tab are in tact. An empty index is in the front of the volume. 42 pp. of portraits including portraits of single men (25), women (24) and two images of women which are likely photographed paintings, boys (2), girls (4) a baby (1), two women (1), two men (1), a woman and a girl (1), a man and a woman (2), and two children (2). Some of the images have slight tinting in the cheeks. One of the men is wearing a distinctly heavy fur hat, collar, and mittens. Two of the men are in uniform and several of the women are wearing large hoop skirts. Of particular note towards the rear of the album is a portrait of U. S. Grant next to a memorial to President Abraham Lincoln which reads "Sacred to the memory of Abraham Lincoln 16th president of the United States, Died April 1st 1865, We mourn our country's loss" with an oval image of Lincoln on a draped tombstone. The photographs include albumen prints and carte-de-visites. One loose photograph of a boy in a gown standing on a chair is later, probably turn-of-the-century, and is identified on the back as Chas. Willis Gale, 1 year [old]. The remaining portraits are unidentified and undated. A number of spots for images are empty within the album allowing one to note that the photographers were from Litchfield, Utica, Hillsdale, and Jonesville (Mich.), as well as Chicago. The album is in very good condition except for foxing in the front of the album near the binding. The album was purchased as part of a lot. Identification of the owners is unknown.

1 v. (in 1 folder) : ill.

Clarke Historical Library

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Gale, Charles Willis.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...