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Carte-de-visite portrait of Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

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Carte-de-visite of Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth shown in three-quarter portrait. Ellsworth stands facing the camera with his right hand in his trouser pocket. He wears a light colored vest and trousers, a dark jacket, a dark cloak, a white shirt, and a dark necktie with a tie pin. The bottom portion of the image is purposefully faded in the popular style of the time. There is a double-lined border printed in gold ink surrounding the outside edges of the card mount.Handwritten in graphite on the bottom of the print is the text "Col. Ellsworth killed / at Alexandria 1861". There is a mark for E. & H.T. Anthony printed on the back of the photograph.The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print. Handwritten in graphite in the lower left corner of the album is the text "Anthony / Brady NY".
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Image
Format:
Albumen And Silver On Photographic Paper On Card Mount
Rights:
Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
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Record Contributed By

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Brady, Mathew
  4. Civil War
  5. E. And H.T. Anthony And Company
  6. Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim
  7. Howland, Emily
  8. Local And Regional
  9. Military
  10. Photography
  11. U.S. History, Civil War, 1861 1865

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