Cartes-de-visite album

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Cartes-de-visite album

Entry/Object ID

ARC654

Scope and Content

Blue leather-bound photo album. Contains 12 photographs or cartes-de-visite. Includes Jefferson Davis, R. E. Lee, James Longstreet, J.E.B. Stuart and others. Each is in a heavy cardboard page surrounded by gold lines. On back of one is long handwritten note in pencil describing actions in the Civil War. On front page in gold surrounded by fancy gold border: PHOTOGRAPH Album. PHILADELPHIA: MILLER & BURLOCK. On second page in gold letters: INDEX" with lines down sheet. Several cards have publisher information on the back. Written on the cards: 1. The Generals of the Confederate States Army 2. Jefferson Davis 3. General Robert E. Lee 4. James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833-1864) Confederate general, cavalry command 5. Gen. Longstreet 6. Gen. Beauregard 7. Joe Johnston 8. John Letcher of Va 9. Henry A. Wise 10. Capt Chapin Bartlett, Confederate States Army, Army of Northern VA 11. Joe Johnston 12. John Buchanan Floyd

Acquisition

Accession

244

Source or Donor

O'Brien, John & Sylvie

Acquisition Method

Gift