Massachusetts Civil War dead picture album, ca. 1870-1880.

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Massachusetts Civil War dead picture album, ca. 1870-1880.

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Album containing 44 hand-tinted photographs and collotypes of Massachusetts officers who died in the Civil War. Subjects include Nathaniel Bowditch, Joseph Pitty Couthouy, Wilder Dwight, Robert Gould Shaw, John Sedgwick, and Frederic Winthrop, among many others. All of the subjects are identified by an index in the front of the album. The photographers and collotype artists are unknown. The album was owned by Civil War veteran Theodore Lyman, Jr. and was probably assembled between 1870-1880.

44 photographs and collotypes in 1 album.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7657778

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1839-1863.

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Dwight, Wilder, 1833-1862

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Couthouy, Joseph Pitty, 1808-1864

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American Naval Officer. From the description of Autograph report signed : Dead Man's Bend, to Admiral Porter, 1863 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270534391 Scientist. From the description of Correspondence of Joseph Pitty Couthouy, 1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060388 ...

Winthrop, Frederic, 1839-1865

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Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897

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Lyman (1833-1897) earned his Harvard AB 1855. His positions at Harvard included: Treasurer of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) (1865-1872; 1874-1876), Overseer (1868-1880; 1881-1888), Assistant at the MCZ (1863-1877), member of the faculty at the MCZ (1874-1887). From the description of Papers of Theodore Lyman, 1897-ca. 1909. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972826 ...

Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864

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Union Army general in the U.S. Civil War, killed at Spotsylvania. From the description of Letter, 186[4] January 14, (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407072 American army officer. From the description of Telegram, not autograph : 6th A. C., to Lt. Col. J. G. Taylor, 1863 Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665049 From the description of Telegraph, not autograph : Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac, to Major L. Hunt, 1863 June 3. (Unknown). WorldCa...