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Abraham Lincoln presidential collection [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: AV 83
Scope and Contents Collection illustrates the life and death of Abraham Lincoln. Included are portraits of Lincoln as a young man and during the Presidency; the Republican Presidential ticket of 1860 and the Union Presidential ticket of 1864; photographs and postcards of his boyhood home and his home in Springfield, Illinois; pamphlets and invitations to events held in honor of Lincoln after his death; photographs of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and photographs, prints and postcards of busts and...
Dates: circa 1860-197-?

Andrew Johnson [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3030
Scope and Contents Collection consists of portraits of United States President Andrew Johnson, including three on cartes de visite. One print of Johnson is based on a painting by Alonzo Chappel and published by Johnson Fry & Co. Publishers of New York. Mounted on one carte de visite is a small, oval shaped photograph of Johnson. It is framed by an embossed pattern on the carte de visite mount. The card was manufactured by the Salisbury, Bro. & Co. Text printed on the back of the card indicates they sold...
Dates: 186--19-?

Benjamin F. Wade and family [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4372
Scope and Contents Portrait photographs and prints of Benjamin F. Wade, his wife Caroline Rosecrans Wade and other Wade Family members. People's names and family relationships are recorded on the back of the majority of photographs.
Dates: circa 1860-19--

Calvin Ellis Stowe [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4335
Scope and Contents Collection contains a carte de visite portrait of Calvin Ellis Stowe, the husband of American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe met Harriet Beecher when he was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1830s. They moved to Maine in 1850 when Stowe took a position at Bowdoin College. Additionally, there is a photographic reproduction of an engraved portrait and a print of a portrait depicting Stowe.
Dates: 186-?-19--

Charles Whittlesey [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4190
Scope and Contents Collection is comprised of two prints and a carte de visite portrait of Ohio geologist Charles Whittlesey. In the carte de visite portrait Whittlesey is pictured in his Civil War uniform.||||Credits: Photographer, J.M. Greene.
Dates: circa 1861-19--

Civil War soldiers [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4613
Scope and Contents Collection contains cartes de visite portraits of Civil War soldiers and officers. Most of the portraits depict individual soldiers. A few are portraits of groups of soldiers. Some portraits have soldiers names or regiments recorded on the cards, while many are unidentified. One identified soldier is Oscar Dwight Kelton who served in the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A. Many of the portraits were taken by Ohio photographers. Two cartes de visites have a note attached that states, "Found...
Dates: circa 1861-1865

Clement L. Vallandigham [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4336
Scope and Contents Collection includes portraits of Ohio politician Clement L. Vallandigham and images of two homes in Lisbon, Ohio that were occupied by Vallandigham. There are three cartes de visite portraits of Vallandigham; a photographic reproduction of a daguerreotype portrait picturing Vallandigham and his wife, Louisa; and a photographic reproduction of an engraved portrait. Prints found in the collection include a portrait of Vallandigham engraved by W.G. Jackman and a portrait that accompanied news of...
Dates: 186--19--

Edwin M. Stanton [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3996
Scope and Contents Collection is comprised of prints depicting Edwin M. Stanton, a carte de visite portrait of Edwin M. Stanton and photographs of homes occupied by Stanton. Additionally, the collection includes a photograph of a statue of Stanton in his hometown of Steubenville, Ohio and a program for the ceremony dedicating the statue in 1911. The oil portrait of Edwin M. Stanton in the collections of the Ohio Historical Society is catalog number H 24718.||||Credits: Engraver A. H. Ritchie; publisher Johnson,...
Dates: circa 1860-19--

George B. McClellan [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3535
Scope and Contents Collection consists of cartes de visite portraits of Union Civil War General George B. McClellan. Cartes de visite include photographic portraits and engraved reproductions of photographs. There are two copies of a print on carte de visite that depict McClellan with his wife, Ellen, and one the depicts Mrs. McClellan alone. Additionally, there is a an engraved portrait of McClellan in camp. It was published by Johnson, Fry & Co. and based on a painting by Alonzo Chappel. Two other...
Dates: 1861-19--

Governor David Tod [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3897
Scope and Contents The collection contains five cartes de visite portraits, three prints and a hand touched photograph depicting Ohio Governor David Tod. Additionally, the collection contains two photographs of Tod's Governor's portrait that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. A digital image representing one photograph in this collection has been included in this bibliographic record. Copy negative number for an image in this collection is R 442.||||Credits: Photographers J. M. Elliot and Griswold & Smith,...
Dates: circa 1862-19--