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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04609 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Photographs of the Civil War |
| Title | Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady, including images of Lincoln, generals and freed slaves |
| Date | ca.1865 |
| Author | Brady, Matthew B. (1822-1896) |
| Document Type | Photograph |
| Content Description | Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, freed slaves, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages removed from album 6/97 and boxed as album pages. 50 pages with four cartes per page, most labeled in a contemporary hand (and sometimes humorously, as in Jefferson Davis). Another copy of the New Orleans freed slaves is in GLB 75. |
| Subjects | Women's History Slave Children of New Orleans Slave Life Photography Civil War President First Lady Lincoln's Cabinet Literature and Language Arts Art, Music, Theater, and Film Freemen Emancipation Slavery African American History Confederate General or Leader Prisoner of War Military History Union Forces Union General |
| People | Brady, Mathew B. (1822-1896) |
| Place written | [various places] |
| Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics; Women in American History; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |