Album Page, Cartes-de-Visite
Album Page, Cartes-de-Visite
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- Description
- This is the nineteenth page in an album of cartes-de-visite portraits of American Civil War figures assembled by the President of Switzerland, Karl Schenk. This album page contains portraits of Union leaders: Major General Sheridan, Major General Kilpatrick, Major General Custer, and Major General Stoneman. Schenk's son gave the album to General Charles Hodges, a Civil War veteran, whose niece, Aileen Taylor, donated it to the Smithsonian in 1951.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- album page, cartes-de-visite
- date made
- ca 1865
- assembled
- Switzerland
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 29.845 cm x 22.225 cm
- pages: 3 3/16 in x 2 in; 8.09625 cm x 5.08 cm
- ID Number
- PG.71.62.19
- accession number
- 302789
- catalog number
- 71.62.19
- subject
- Civil War
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Civil War
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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