Three-quarter length character portrait of performer Lillian Russell in costume for the title role in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Patience." She wears a bonnet and long dress and carries an empty pail under her left arm. Born Helen...
Full-length character portrait of actress Lillian Russell. In this somewhat unusual costume, she is seated, wearing a short, tasseled outfit, high boots, arm bands, and a hat resembling a turban. Born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa ca. 1861,...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Three-quarter length character portrait of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink in costume as Amneris in the Verdi opera "Aida." She wears her hair down, with a crown atop her head, and a regal dress. Born Ernestine (Tini) Rössler in Lieben...
Full-length character portrait of performer Lillian Russell in costume for the title role in the opera "Pepita," composed by her second husband, Edward Solomon. She is standing in a corner, wearing a tam, black corset-style top, and white...
Portrait of man wearing black hat, suit jacket, and ascot. Jerry Bryant was likely the brother of Dan and Neil Bryant, who performed together as Bryant's Minstrels. Annotation on print, lower center: "Our brother Jerry Bryant died April 8th...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink in costume as a maid (wearing a long dress with apron and scullery hat). Born Ernestine (Tini) Rössler in Lieben (near Prague), Austria on June 15, 1861, the contralto and...
Full-length character portrait of actress Lillian Russell, possibly as Cleopatra. She stands before a backdrop of Egyptian hieroglyphics, wearing a long white dress with wide sleeves and a crown, and holding a feather fan above her head. Born Helen...
Character portrait of Canadian actress Louise Beaudet wearing a floppy hat raked to the left, and a dress with collar and puffy sleeves. Louise Beaudet was born in St. Emilie, Quebec, in 1861, and died December 31, 1947 in New York City. Location...
Portrait of actor and director Harry Corson Clarke as a young man, with dark hair parted in the middle, wearing a suit jacket and tie with stickpin. Clarke was born circa 1861, and died March 3, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He performed at...
Portrait of actor and director Harry Corson Clarke, possibly in costume for a role. He has white hair worn with thick sideburns, and wears a wool suit jacket with a rose pinned to the left lapel, a white vest, and a black necktie with stickpin....
Portrait of actor and director Harry Corson Clarke as--or playing the role of--an older man. He has thinning white hair, a worried facial expression, and eyeglasses, and wears a double-breasted suit jacket and black bow tie. Clarke was born circa...
The photographer's sister, Florence Matthews, poses with a sled and a dog in a snow scene in Vermont. Handwritten on verso: "With Christmas Love, To Florence, From Kate" An inscription on another print of this image (1985.09.021)...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Robert Anderson (1805-1871), a brigadier general in the Union Army of the United States Civil War. He born in "Soldier's Retreat," near Louisville, Kentucky. He was the commanding officer of Fort Sumter during the attack by...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Rufus King (1814-1876), a newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the United States Civil War. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister to the Papal States in 1861. While on his way...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Portrait of Henry Washington Benham (1813-1884), a Union general in the United States Civil War. He was appointed engineer of the Department of the Ohio in 1861 and later that same year he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Major General Francis C. Barlow (1834-1896), of the Union Army of the United States Civil War. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated first in his class at Harvard and was practicing law...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate; Generals--Confederate States of America; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Portrait of Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891). When Johnston's native state of Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnston resigned his commission as a brigadier general in the regular army, the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to do so....
Historic sites; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Log cabins; Monuments & memorials
Replica of the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The original cabin was mostly destroyed, but a replica, built from some of the original salvaged materials, stands within the Lincoln Memorial at the Abraham Lincoln...
Roads; Stone walls; Men; Cliffs; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Two men stand on Shaker Ferry Road above a stone wall with a cliff behind them. Shaker Ferry Road is located in present-day Mercer County in Shakertown at Pleasant Hill. The road, which was began in 1826 and completed in 1861, was used by the...
"With its somewhat distant-looking quality and distinctive crown of olive leaves, this statue is most likely a memorial portrait. Although the head and body originally came from two separate statues, they are chronologically consistent. The...
