A.B. Brown [graphic].
Title
A.B. Brown
Description
American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.15f]
Abner Kingman Nott, 1834-1859 [graphic].
Title
Abner Kingman Nott, 1834-1859
Description
Baptist clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.31b]
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 [graphic].
Title
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Description
U.S. president., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.1e]
Abraham Oakey Hall, 1826-1898 [graphic].
Title
Abraham Oakey Hall, 1826-1898
Description
Lawyer, politician, journalist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.35d]
Abram Joseph Ryan, 1838-1886 [graphic].
Title
Abram Joseph Ryan, 1838-1886
Description
Roman Catholic clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.47a]
Abram Stevens Hewitt, 1822-1903 [graphic].
Title
Abram Stevens Hewitt, 1822-1903
Description
Statesman, philanthropist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.24d]
Adelaide Phillipps, 1833-1882 [graphic].
Title
Adelaide Phillipps, 1833-1882
Description
Singer., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.44e]
Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends, 1839-1900 [graphic].
Title
Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends, 1839-1900
Description
Clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.26d]
Adoniram Judson Gordon, 1836-1895 [graphic].
Title
Adoniram Judson Gordon, 1836-1895
Description
Baptist clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.28e]
Albert Barnes, 1798-1870 [graphic].
Title
Albert Barnes, 1798-1870
Description
Presbyterian clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.22a]
Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902 [graphic].
Title
Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902
Description
Landscape painter., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.40c]
Albert Harkness, 1822-1907 [graphic].
Title
Albert Harkness, 1822-1907
Description
Classical scholar., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.9b]
Albert Harrison Mixer, 1822-1908 [graphic].
Title
Albert Harrison Mixer, 1822-1908
Description
American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.12d]
Albert James Myer, 1829-1880 [graphic].
Title
Albert James Myer, 1829-1880
Description
Army surgeon, established signal corps., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.8f]
Albert Sidney Johnston, 1803-1862 [graphic].
Title
Albert Sidney Johnston, 1803-1862
Description
Confederate general., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.12d]
Albion Winegar Tourgee, 1838-1905 [graphic].
Title
Albion Winegar Tourgee, 1838-1905
Description
Union soldier, lawyer, Carpetbag jurist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.49f]
Alexander Dallas Bache, 1806-1867 [graphic].
Title
Alexander Dallas Bache, 1806-1867
Description
Physicist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.2c]
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812-1883 [graphic].
Title
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, 1812-1883
Description
Statesman, lawyer, Governor of Georgia., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.10b]
Alexander Turney Stewart, 1803-1876 [graphic].
Title
Alexander Turney Stewart, 1803-1876
Description
Clothing merchant., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.50b]
Alexis Caswell, 1799-1877 [graphic].
Title
Alexis Caswell, 1799-1877
Description
President of Brown University., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.8e]
Alfred Elijah Dickinson, 1830-1906 [graphic].
Title
Alfred Elijah Dickinson, 1830-1906
Description
Baptist clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.39d]
Alfred Howe Terry, 1827-1890 [graphic].
Title
Alfred Howe Terry, 1827-1890
Description
Lawyer, soldier., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.8d]
Alice Cary, 1820-1871 [graphic].
Title
Alice Cary, 1820-1871
Description
Poet, author., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.46e]
Allen Granberry Thurman, 1813-1895 [graphic].
Title
Allen Granberry Thurman, 1813-1895
Description
Lawyer, Ohio jurist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.21e]
Alonzo Ames Milner, 1814-? [graphic].
Title
Alonzo Ames Milner, 1814-?
Description
Universalist clergyman, educator, President of Tufts College., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.33f]
Alvah Hovey, 1820-1903 [graphic].
Title
Alvah Hovey, 1820-1903
Description
Baptist clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.7b]
Amasa Walker, 1799-1875 [graphic].
Title
Amasa Walker, 1799-1875
Description
Boston businessman, economist, Mass. politician., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.31e]
Ambrose Everett Burnside, 1824-1881 [graphic].
Title
Ambrose Everett Burnside, 1824-1881
Description
Union soldier, Rhode Island Governor., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.4d]
American celebrities album
Title
American celebrities album
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., 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., Title from item's cover., Photographers include Mathew Brady, E. & H. T. Anthony; Jeremiah Gurney; and George Kendall Warren., Majority of sitters identified by a manuscript note on the album page or on portrait or an inscribed label., 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., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See "American Celebrities Album" item-level records for digital images of all identified individual sitters.
Date
[ca. 1870-ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9100.1 & 2]
Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888 [graphic].
Title
Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888
Description
Educator, transcendentalist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.41c]
Andrew Dickson White, 1832-1918 [graphic].
Title
Andrew Dickson White, 1832-1918
Description
Educator, senator., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.14d]
Andrew Gregg Curtin, 1815?-1894 [graphic].
Title
Andrew Gregg Curtin, 1815?-1894
Description
Lawyer, politician., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.26c]
Andrew Jackson Davis, 1826-1910 [graphic].
Title
Andrew Jackson Davis, 1826-1910
Description
Spiritualist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.35e]
Andrew Johnson, 1808-1875 [graphic].
Title
Andrew Johnson, 1808-1875
Description
U.S. president., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.1f]
Andrew Preston Peabody, 1811-1893 [graphic].
Title
Andrew Preston Peabody, 1811-1893
Description
Editor & proprietor North American Review., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.34e]
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, 1842-1932 [graphic].
Title
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, 1842-1932
Description
Orator, actress, playwright., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.36e]
Anson Burlingame, 1820-1870 [graphic].
Title
Anson Burlingame, 1820-1870
Description
Diplomat to China., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.23d]
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, 1794?-1876 [graphic].
Title
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, 1794?-1876
Description
President of Mexico., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.3e]
Archibald Alexander Hodge, 1823-1886 [graphic].
Title
Archibald Alexander Hodge, 1823-1886
Description
Presbyterian clergyman., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.11a]
Arnold Henry Guyot, 1807-1884 [graphic].
Title
Arnold Henry Guyot, 1807-1884
Description
Geographer., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.3a]
Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1818-1896 [graphic].
Title
Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1818-1896
Description
Episcopal bishop., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.17e]
Asa Gray, 1810-1888 [graphic].
Title
Asa Gray, 1810-1888
Description
Botanist, associate of Charles Darwin., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.3c]
Ashael Clark Kendrick, 1809-1895 [graphic].
Title
Ashael Clark Kendrick, 1809-1895
Description
Scholar, classicist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.12b]
Asher Brown Durand, 1796-1886 [graphic].
Title
Asher Brown Durand, 1796-1886
Description
Engraver, painter., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.39e]
August Belmont, 1816-1890 [graphic].
Title
August Belmont, 1816-1890
Description
Capitalist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.50c]
Augustus B. Earle, 1793-? [graphic].
Title
Augustus B. Earle, 1793-?
Description
Artist, adventurer., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.30a]
Augustus Hopkins Strong, 1836-1921 [graphic].
Title
Augustus Hopkins Strong, 1836-1921
Description
Baptist clergyman, theologian., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.13a]
Augustus Hoppin, 1828-1896 [graphic].
Title
Augustus Hoppin, 1828-1896
Description
Illustrator., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.42c]
Austin Flint Jr., 1836-1915 [graphic].
Title
Austin Flint Jr., 1836-1915
Description
Physician, Physiologist., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.37e]
Austin Flint Sr., 1812-1886 [graphic].
Title
Austin Flint Sr., 1812-1886
Description
Physician., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(II)P.9100.2f]

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