Portraits of Orlando Poe,his family,acquaintances
Portraits of Orlando Poe, his family and acquaintances
Title: Portraits of Orlando Poe, his family and acquaintances
Date Created/Published: 1856-1923, bulk 1856-1895.
8 photographic prints on cartes-de-visite mounts : albumen ; 11 x 6 cm.
1 print : engraving ; 24 x 16.5 cm.
Summary: Includes Poe with the West Point class of 1856 and portraits of him as a young Army officer and in his later years; Poe's wife Eleanor; a few group portraits of the Poe children, including some group portraits of Charles Poe with naval academy classmates. Miscellaneous photographs include portraits of Generals J.B. McPherson, Wm. P. Sanders, and William T. Sherman; one reproduction of a drawing depicting a battle at Fort Sanders; a group of men posed wearing military decorations, possibly civil war veterans; one photograph depicting the 1883 ceremony for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue on the Smithsonian grounds, Washington, D.C.; one photograph of women involved in the opening of a political school in Washington, D.C., 1923.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Photographers include: Mora, Bradley & Rulfofson, R.W. Addis, Charles D. Fredrick's, Brady's National Portrait Gallery, and Arthur & Phillbric.
Includes three 'pocket Kodak' snapshots of Poe (LOT 13480-1).
Transfer; Manuscript Division (Papers of O.M. Poe); 1985 (DLC/PP-1985:644).
Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O. M. Poe.
Subjects:
Poe family.
Poe, O. M.--(Orlando Metcalfe),--1832-1895.
Poe, O. M.--(Orlando Metcalfe),--1832-1895--Family.
United States Naval Academy--People.
United States Military Academy--People.
Cadets--1850-1930.
Generals--Union--1850-1930.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel.
Albumen prints--1850-1930.
Engravings--1850-1930.
Group portraits--1850-1930.
Portrait photographs--1850-1930.
Snapshots--1850-1930.
Bookmark /00651921/
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