(CARTES-DE-VISITE.) vanderbilts
Select group of 78 portraits of railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and his immediate family, in carte-de-visite format, by prominent American, Canadian, and European photographers, comprising 10 images of Cornelius (Sr. and Jr.), Alfred, and William; plus studies of their relations in the Cross, Allen, Osgood and Barker families; one pair of duplicates. 1859-1870s