Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ONE OF THESE MEN IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS (CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Lafayette V. Newell. Group of 7 cartes-de-visite produced at Point Lookout. Each about 3 1/2 x 2 inches, generally minor wear. [Point Lookout, MD], circa 1863-65
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Lafayette V. Newell (1833-1914) was a New Hampshire photographer who during the Civil War established himself at the large Union military base in Point Lookout, Maryland at the mouth of the Potomac River. The base included a hospital and Fort Lincoln, which housed several regiments of "Colored Troops." The soldiers shown here are Reuben Lyle and Samuel B. Parrish of the 185th Pennsylvania; Joseph Harbison of the 18th Indiana; David H. Weaver of Ashland, KY; Silas Smalley of the 7th New York Heavy Artillery; Corporal Samuel Collard of the 2nd New Hampshire; and . . . Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in a photograph of an engraving of a well-known photograph. All 7 bear the Newell backmark.
With--2 other cartes-de-visites: John Rathfond of the 148th Pennsylvania, shot at Whitehurst Gallery in Baltimore; and Mrs. Emma Smalley, photographer unknown.