American celebrities album [graphic].

Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes-de-visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts, ca. 1870.

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Title: American celebrities album [graphic].
Subject: Albani, Emma, Dame -- Portraits., Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Portraits., Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 -- Portraits., Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Portraits., Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947, -- Portraits., Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 -- Portraits., Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits., Field, Kate, 1838-1896 -- Portraits., Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918 -- Portraits., Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 -- Portraits., Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Portraits., Ouray -- Portraits., Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 -- Portraits., Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914 -- Portraits., Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 -- Portraits., Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 -- Portraits., Spotted Tail, 1823-1881 -- Portraits., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Portraits., Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927 -- Portraits., Actors -- United States., African American entertainers -- United States., African American abolitionists -- United States., Authors -- United States., Educators -- United States., Governors -- United States., Indians of North America -- Kings and rulers., Legislators -- United States., Military personnel -- United States., Physicians -- United States., Presidents -- United States., Presidents' spouses -- United States., Publishers -- United States., Scientists -- United States., Social reformers -- United States., Spiritual leaders -- United States., Women -- United States.
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes-de-visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts, ca. 1870.
Contributor: Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896, photographer., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895, photographer., Warren, G. K. (George Kendall) d. 1884, photographer., E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), photographer.
Date: ca. 1870-ca. 1890
Type: Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890., Cartes de visite -- 1870-1890., Engravings -- 1870-1890., Tintypes -- 1870-1890., Collages -- 1870-1890., Card photograph albums -- 1870-1890., Leather bindings (Binding),
Format: 2 albums (ca. 581 photographic prints): ca. 571 albumen on carte de visite mount; ca. 8 engravings; ca. 2 tintypes; 28 x 33 cm. (11 x 13 in.)
Identifier: Islandora:AMCE1, digitool:111227, Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT albums - American Celebrities Album [P.9100.1 & 2], P.9100.1, P.9100.2

: Frederick Douglass, 1817?-1895 [graphic].; Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, wearing a beard and white hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note written on mount., Date inferred from duplicate in LCP cabinet card portrait collection [P.9363.9]., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.

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