5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment carte de visite album, ca. 1864-1865.

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5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment carte de visite album, ca. 1864-1865.

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Photograph album containing 46 carte de visite photographs of officers in the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Included are photographs of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edward Jarvis Bartlett, Charles Pickering Bowditch, Henry Pickering Bowditch, Daniel Henry Chamberlain, Patrick Tracy Jackson, and others. The Charles Francis Adams, Jr. carte de visite is autographed by Adams. An index identifies all but one of the photographs, but photographers are not identified. The cover of the album is embossed: "Col. H. S. Russell. 5th Mass Cavalry." Henry S. Russell was a colonel in the regiment and may have gathered or collected the photographs. The unidentified photograph may be Col. Russell.

46 photographs in 1 volume : cartes de visite, b & w ; 10 x 6 cm, in album 17 x 13.5 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7963807

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 1844-1918

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Russell, Henry Sturgis, 1838-1905.

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Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...

United States. Army. Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, 5th (1862-1865)

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Chamberlain, Daniel Henry, 1835-1907

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Attorney and politician. A native of Massachusetts, during the Civil War he was a lieutenant of the 5th Massachusetts Regiment (an African American unit) and from 1866 to about 1876 lived in South Carolina, where he was elected governor in 1874. Chamberlain lost his office in 1876 and left South Carolina to practice law in New York. From the description of Letter, 1885 Feb. 9. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522002 Attorney and politician; nati...

Bartlett, Edward Jarvis, 1842-1914

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Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921

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Charles Pickering Bowditch (born September 30, 1842; died June 1, 1921), was an early initiator and supporter of Meso and Central American research at the Peabody Museum. His interest in Maya studies was sparked by a pleasure trip to the Yucatan in 1888. Bowditch received both his A.B. (1863) and his M.A. (1866) from Harvard University. He was a leading member of the Museum's Committee for Central American Researchers from 1891 until his death. Bowditch joined the Department of Anth...