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Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket with a boutonniere, looks slightly right. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.100]

Title: Benjamin F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [P.8911.103]

Title: Maj. Gen. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly right. Probably published in one of several editions by various publishers between 1862 and 1882 of John S.C. Abbott's The History of Civil War in America...(LCP Am 1864 Abbo, (2)15996.O). Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., LCP book plate differs., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.104]

Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. While commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.105]

Title: Benj. F. Butler Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in his military uniform with a sword, sits beside a table covered in a patterned cloth. There are papers on the table and strewn on the floor. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861-1864), p. 423. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portraits Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.128]

Title: Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]

Title: Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
Description: Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]

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