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CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 Inventory Compiled by Mark E. Martin Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University 2003 Revised 2009, 2014 Updated 2018, 2020, 2021 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES CONTENTS OF INVENTORY SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................... 3 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ................................................................................................... 4 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS .............................................................................................................. 5 INDEX TERMS .............................................................................................................................. 6 CONTAINER LIST ...................................................................................................................... 15 APPENDIX A. PHOTOGRAPHERS REPRESENTED IN THIS ALBUM .............................. 22 Use of manuscript materials. If you wish to examine items in the manuscript group, please place a request via the Special Collections Request System. Consult the Container List for location information. Photocopying. Should you wish to request photocopies, please consult a staff member. Do not remove items to be photocopied. The existing order and arrangement of unbound materials must be maintained. Reproductions must be made from surrogates (microfilm, digital scan, photocopy of original held by LSU Libraries), when available. Publication. Readers assume full responsibility for compliance with laws regarding copyright, literary property rights, and libel. Proper acknowledgement of LLMVC materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections are welcomed. Page 2 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES SUMMARY Size. 168 photographic prints (137 cartes-de-visite, 31 resin coated paper), 1 volume Geographic Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Texas locations. Inclusive dates. 1862-1900, undated Bulk dates. 1862-1865, undated Languages. English Summary. The album contains 137 cartes-de-visite of mostly Confederate Civil War military personnel. Many of the individuals depicted are identified. There are also 31 photographic copy prints taken from the original images. Access restrictions. There are no restrictions on this collection. Copyright. Copyright of the original materials in this collection has expired, and they are therefore in the public domain. Citation. Civil War Photograph Album, Mss.2572, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. Stack location. M:31 Also available on. Digital images of most photographs in the collection are available in the Louisiana Digital Library: http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/LSU_CWP Page 3 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Civil War Photograph Album contains portraits of military personnel who took part in the United States Civil War, 1861-1865. The album has fifty pages; each page has a capacity for four photographs, and most of the photographs (cartes-de-visite) are of Confederate enlisted men and officers. The collection contains a total of 137 cartes-de-visite (1862-1900, undated), and thirty-one black and white copy photographs (created March 9, 1984) of some of those cartes-de-visite. Of the cartes-de-visite, 129 are individual portraits, three are group portraits, and five are copy photographs of art works used as filler cards. See the container list for a list of individuals. Twenty-four individual photographers are represented in the album. See the appendix for a list of them. Each image is identified by a unique item number. Each number starts with the manuscript number – 2572 – followed by a “zero” place holder and the album page number on which the image was originally placed. Following the page number is an alpha designator indicating that image’s location on that page: a = top left b= top right c= bottom left d = bottom right. For example: 2572 / 0 / 10 / c = manuscript number / zero placeholder / page 10 / bottom left Three cartes-de-visite were found loose in the album and so have no associated page number / location. These three images have an “x” designator following the manuscript number and no alpha designator following the item number. For example: 2572 / x / 0 / 0 / 1 = manuscript number / “x” designator / zero placeholder / zero placeholder / item number The thirty-one black and white copy photographs have a “c” designator following the manuscript number and no other alpha designator following the item number. Not all album image slots contained images. Any slots without images are so indicated in the container list by the words “No image.” Page 4 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES SERIES DESCRIPTIONS Series I. Cartes-de-visite, 1862-1900, undated 137 cartes-de-visite, where 129 are individual portraits, three are group portraits, and five are copy photographs of art works used as filler cards. Cartes-de-visite were removed from the original album for preservation purposes. Series II. Black and White Photographic Copy Prints, March 9, 1984 Thirty-one modern black and white copies of some of the cartes-de-visite, representing twenty- nine individual portraits and one group portrait. Page 5 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES INDEX TERMS Note: The number(s) below each topic are the unique identifier for each image. Anderson & Blessing (Studio : New Orleans, La.) 2572006d; 2572007c; 2572008b; 2572011c; 2572013d; 2572032b; 2572036b Anderson & Turner (Studio : New Orleans, La.) 2572014a; 2572028d; 2572030c Anderson (Studio : New Orleans, La.) 2572015c; 2572022d; 2572040d Anderson, Samuel, photographer 2572006c; 2572006d; 2572007c; 2572008b; 2572008d; 2572009d; 572009c; 2572004c; 2572005c; 2572005d; 2572010c; 2572010d; 2572011c; 2572012c; 2572012d; 2572013a; 2572013c; 2572013d; 2572014a; 2572014c; 2572014d; 2572015a; 2572016b; 2572017b; 2572017c; 2572017d; 2572018b; 2572020c; 2572021a; 2572021d; 2572022d; 2572018c; 2572026d; 2572027b; 2572028a; 2572028b; 2572028d; 2572030c; 2572031c; 2572032b; 2572032d; 2572033d; 2572035d; 2572036a; 2572036b; 2572036c; 2572037c; 2572040d; 2572041d; 2572047d; 2572x001; 2572x002 Anderson's Photographic Gallery (Studio : New Orleans, La.) 2572006c; 2572008d; 2572009d; 2572009c; 2572005c; 2572005d; 2572010c; 2572010d; 2572012c; 2572012d; 2572013c; 2572020c; 2572026d; 2572028b; 2572032d; 2572041d; 2572047d; 2572004c; 2572036c; 2572037c B. Moses (Studio : New Orleans, La.) 2572030b Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893--Portrait photographs 2572004a; 2572004b; 2572023c; 2572032c; 2572045a Blair, Col.--Portrait photographs 2572016a Blessing, Samuel T., photographer 2572006d; 2572007c; 2572008b; 2572011c; 2572013d; 2572032b; 2572036b; 2572039d Blythe, Alphonse--Portrait photographs 2572027c Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876--Portrait photographs 2572008a; 2572023c; 2572045a Branch, E. K.--Portrait photographs 2572017b; 2572037c Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875--Portrait photographs 2572024a Brown & Thompson (Studio : New York City, N.Y.) 2572038c Buchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874--Portrait photographs 2572029c Page 6 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES Note: The number(s) below each topic are the unique identifier for each image. Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914--Portrait photographs 2572009a Campbell 2572x001 Campbell, Marsden, died 1896--Portrait photographs 2572014b; 2572031c; 2572x002 Carloss, W. W.--Portrait photographs 2572008c Chalmers, James R. (James Ronald), 1831-1898--Portrait photographs 2572012a Chandler--Portrait photographs 2572032b Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 1820-1886--Portrait photographs 2572025c Chinn, B. R., died 1888--Portrait photographs 2572009d Clark, T. C., photographer 2572027a; 2572029d; 2572042a; 2572048c Clarke, John Hawley, 1831-1914, photographer 2572015d Coleman, died 1865--Portrait photographs 2572013c Cook, William B.--Portrait photographs 2572010c Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876--Portrait photographs 2572003a Corlena--Portrait photographs 2572036d Crouch, Henry--Portrait photographs 2572022d Crutcher, James, died 1875--Portrait photographs 2572038c Dabney--Portrait photographs 2572032d Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Portrait photographs 2572001a; 2572023c; 2572045a DeBoulnez, A.--Portrait photographs 2572040d Deering, George, died 1905--Portrait photographs 2572036c Page 7 of 23 CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Mss. 2572 1862-1900 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES Note: The number(s) below each topic are the unique identifier for each image. Dexter, Elias, photographer 2572034c Dirmeyer, Charles--Portrait photographs 2572014a Downer, Lester--Portrait photographs 2572030c Dreux, Charles Didier, died 1862--Portrait photographs 2572027a E. & H. T. Anthony (Studio : New York City, N.Y.) 2572003a; 2572003b; 2572003d; 2572005b; 2572006a; 2572007a; 2572010a; 2572012a; 2572012b; 2572023a; 2572023b; 2572023d; 2572024a; 2572024b;
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