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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC05135.099 |
| From Archive Folder | Carte de visites, cabinet cards and stereocards by Brady and others |
| Title | Tom Thumb |
| Date | ca. 1861-1865 |
| Document Type | Photograph |
| Content Description | "The Fairy Wedding Group." The marriage of Charles (Tom Thumb) and Lavina Stratton. Photo shows Charles Stratton, Lavina Stratton and two attendants. Signed on verso by Charles Stratton, Lavina Warren Stratton, G. W. M. Nutt and Minnie Warren. |
| Subjects | Civil War Entertaining and Hospitality Marriage Children and Family Women's History |
| People | Stratton, Charles Sherwood (b. 1838) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Women in American History; Children & Family |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Folder Information: This collection contains 138 carte de visites, 4 stereocards and 1 cabinet card of various Civil War era generals, politicians, and interesting civilians. The collection was assembled by a private collector. Imprints include E. & H.T. Anthony, A.S. Morse, Brady, and Armistead & Taylor. The collection has been broken down into the following categories: 1-58 Union generals, also includes Johnny Clem; #59-85 Confederate generals; #86-90 Montages of generals (1 Confederate); #91-101 Civilian personalities and notables (including Lincoln, Jefferson and Varina Davis, cabinet members, etc.); #102-124 Bust portraits, mostly senators, from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery; #125-138 Civil War scenes, mostly western theatre; #139-144 Stereocards and one cabinet card. The collection contains very handsome vignette bust views of U.S. Grant (#14) and R.E. Lee (#73), Armistead & Taylor portraits of Sherman and Osterhaus; A.S. Morse portraits of Davis, Jackson and Longstreet; a Lincoln portrait (#93; Ostendorf 71), and montages of military leaders from both sides. There is also a tintype carte de visite of a soldier who served at Gettysburg (#100). |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |