Collecting card containing a bust-length portrait of the Tennessee journalist, itinerant preacher, and politician. Shows Brownlow, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, looking at the viewer. Brownlow, although an advocate of slavery, actively opposed Southern secession and was subsequently exiled from the Confederacy during the Civil War., Title from item., Date based on card was probably issued as part of a series of cards depicting prominent men and Civil War generals published by Prang in 1860., Contains double-ruled border printed in green ink., Acquired 2012., 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
L. Prang & Co.
Date
[1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [P.2012.51.3]
