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USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: 19th century photographs collection
Identifier/Call Number: 0127
Identifier/Call Number: 318
Physical Description:
1.58 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): circa 1860s-1870s
Abstract: Tintype, ambrotype, daguerreotype, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet card portrait photographs of the Civil War period (soldiers
and civilians).
The collection consists of 49 tintypes, 10 ambrotypes, 1 daguerreotype, 24 cartes-de-visite, 1 photograph album of cartes-de-visite,
and 1 cabinet card, created during the 1860s and 1870s and depicting portraits of Civil War soldiers and civilians, family
portraits, landscapes, and an animal. The identified photographers include C.V. Tarbox; M.G. Trank, Bangor, ME; A.H. Dresser,
Bucksport, MA; J.P. Merrill, Bangor, ME; Mather; Titusville, PA; J.P. and F.W. Hardy, Bangor, ME; Bogardus, New York, NY;
D.C. Dinsmore, Dover, ME; Miller & Rowell, Boston, MA; Bowdoin, Taylor & Co., Alexandria, VA; J.R. Foster, Great Falls, NH;
Davis & Co., Boston, MA; H.L. Kilgore, Belfast, ME; W. Chase, Halifax, Nova Scotia; J.L. Lovell, Amherst, MA; Lovell & Knowlton,
Northampton, MA; S.W. Sawyer, Bangor, ME; Holmes' Park Gallery, New York, NY. Most of the tintypes and ambrotypes are housed
in ornately embossed book-case frames.
[Box/folder# or item name], 19th century photographs collection, Collection no. 0127, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
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Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Retting, 1983.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ambrotypes (photographs)
Cabinet photographs
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Cased photographs
Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Portraits -- United States -- 19th century -- Photographs
Tintypes (prints)
Soldiers -- United States -- 19th century -- Photographs