Carte de visite album of American and European public figures, ca. 1861-1863.

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Carte de visite album of American and European public figures, ca. 1861-1863.

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Album containing 99 commercially-produced carte de visite portraits of American and European public figures Subjects depicted include officers and others involved in the Civil War, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant; British statesmen; British, Austrian, Spanish, and Italian heads of state and royal families; members of the Bonaparte family; and a series of portraits of Spanish bull-fighters, among others. The photographs were taken ca. 1861-1863 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri of Paris, Jean Laurent of Madrid, and D'Alessandri Frères of Rome, among many others. Some of the photographs are hand-tinted. All of the photos are identified.

99 photographs in 1 album : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10 x 6 cm., in album 15.5 x 24 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7657763

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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