Scrapbook containing portraiture of Civil War military and political figures, including cartes de visite, card portraits, portrait prints, group portraits, photo montages, caricatures and newspaper clippings. Group portraits include the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln; lithographs and cartes de viste titled "The Defenders of Our Union" portraying the generals of the Union Army; and cartes de visite views at Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown on May 1-2, 1862 showing Gen Van Vliet and friends, General Marcy and friends, and officers servants. Also contains several unidentified cartes de visite portraits of Union military personnel; a 1904 card from the Massachusetts Military Order of the Loyal Legion requesting war-time portraits; and advertisements for portrait engravers and publishers, J.C Buttre, Wm. S. & A. Martien, L. Prang & Co., and A. Winch. Buttre advertisement also contains a manuscript note by Buttre to J.A. McAllister dated January 31, 1862 requesting a likeness of Secretary Stanton., Sitters include Nathaniel Banks, Louis Blenker, Ambrose Burnside, John C. Fremont, George McClellan, Winfield Scott, John Sedgwick, William Henry Seward, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Franz Sigel, Edward Stanton, Edwin V. Sumner, George Sykes, George H. Thomas, James S. Wadsworth, Alexander Webb, Gideon Welles, Charles Wilkes, James H. Wilson, Isaac J. Wistar, and Fernando Wood., Various artists and photographers including Barnard & Gibson, James Black, Mathew Brady, John Chester Buttre, Washington Lafayette Germon, Frederick Gutekunst, James E. McClees, George E. Perine, A.H. Ritchie, and John Sartain, Various publishers including John Dainty, E. & H.T. Anthony, J.A. Lowell & Co., J.E. Tilton & Co., L. Prang & Co, McAllister & Brother, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
ca. 1861-1904
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - McAllister Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(2)5775.F]
