Contributor |
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer. |
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Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895, photographer. |
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Warren, G. K. (George Kendall) -1884, photographer. |
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E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), photographer. |
Title |
American celebrities album [graphic]. |
Date |
[ca. 1870-ca. 1890] |
Physical Description |
ca. 581 photographs in 2 albums : ca. 571 albumen on carte de visite mount ; ca. 8 engravings ; ca. 2 tintypes ; mount 28
x 33 cm (11 x 13 in.)
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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. Portraits depict actors, artists, authors, Congressmen, educators, governors,
military leaders, physicians, publishers, religious leaders, social reformers, scientists, and U.S. presidents and their spouses.
Includes mostly vignette and bust-length portraits and a small number of full length portraits. Also contains a small number
of trimmed portrait engravings, tintypes, and a photo-collage depicting evangelist D. L. Moody with the under photograph copyrighted
1877. Small number of sitters are unidentified.
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Men sitters include P. T. Barnum; Henry Ward Beecher; John Brown; Ned Buntline; Samuel Clemens; Jefferson Davis; O. S. Fowler;
Oliver Wendell Holmes; Abraham Lincoln; Samuel Morse; Thomas Nast; Hiram Powers; Winfield Scott; Gerrit Smith; Cornelius Vanderbilt;
John Wanamaker; Brigham Young; Native American chiefs Ouray, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull; and African Americans Frederick
Douglass and performer "Blind" Tom. Women sitters include presidential spouses Frances Cleveland and Lucretia Garfield; reformers
Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull; authors Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt (Jackson), Harriet Beecher Stowe; sculptors
Harriet Hosmer and Vinnie Ream; and performers Maria Albani, Charlotte Cushman, and Kate Field.
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Notes |
Title from item's cover. |
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Photographers include Mathew Brady, E. & H. T. Anthony; Jeremiah Gurney; and George Kendall Warren. |
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Majority of sitters identified by a manuscript note on the album page or on portrait or an inscribed label. |
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Brown leather bindings with gilt, stamped in gilt on front boards: Volume I: American Celebrities. Vol. I.; Volume II: American
Celebrities. Vol. II. Stamped in gilt on spines: Album.
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Purchase 1985. |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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See "American Celebrities Album" item-level records for digital images of all identified individual sitters. |
Subject |
Albani, Emma, Dame -- Portraits. |
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Portraits. |
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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 -- Portraits. |
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Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Portraits. |
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Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947, -- Portraits. |
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Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 -- Portraits. |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits. |
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Field, Kate, 1838-1896 -- Portraits. |
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Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918 -- Portraits. |
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Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 -- Portraits. |
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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Portraits. |
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Ouray -- Portraits. |
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Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 -- Portraits. |
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Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914 -- Portraits. |
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Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 -- Portraits. |
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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 -- Portraits. |
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Spotted Tail, 1823-188 -- Portraits. |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Portraits. |
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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927 -- Portraits. |
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Actors -- United States. |
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African American abolitionists -- United States. |
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African American entertainers -- United States. |
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Authors -- United States. |
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Educators -- United States. |
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Governors -- United States. |
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Indians of North America -- Kings and rulers. |
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Indigenous peoples -- United States. |
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Legislators -- United States. |
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Military personnel -- United States. |
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Physicians -- United States. |
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Presidents -- United States. |
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Presidents' spouses -- United States. |
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Publishers -- United States. |
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Scientists -- United States. |
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Social reformers -- United States. |
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Spiritual leaders -- United States. |
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Women -- United States. |
Genre |
Card photograph albums -- 1870-1890. |
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Cartes de visite -- 1870-1890. |
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Collages -- 1870-1890. |
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Engravings -- 1870-1890. |
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Leather bindings (Binding), |
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Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Tintypes -- 1870-1890. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.9100.1 & 2] |
Accession number |
P.9100.1 |
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P.9100.2 |