Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title A.V. Burlingame [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1856
Date [ca. 1856]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; sheet 11 x 6 cm (4 x 2.25 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist. Burlingame, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly right. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's violent attack of antislavery Senator, Charles Sumner, in Congress in 1856.
Notes Possibly by Mathew B. Brady.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Date inferred from photographic medium.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits.
McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts.
Legislators -- Massachusetts.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Portrait photographs -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Burlingame [(1)5750.F.63h]
Accession number (1)5750.F.63h