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(PHILADELPHIA) Album containing more than 460 photographs mounted onto 31 leaves, with several medium-format views of stately residences and commercial buildings in the City of Brotherly Love attributed to Robert Newell, as well as a host of Civil War-era prints. The album is chock-a-block with rarely seen popular imagery that comprises a panoramic iconography of the post-War period, ranging from portraits of prominent military and political figures, to period artwork by well-known artists, as well as commercial pictures of religious scenes, children, slave figures, period currency, and topical news. Highlights include 13 views of Chambersburg after the Confederates sacked the city; formal scenes of residences, churches, the Carriage Repository, an Ambulance and Workers, and the Franklin Sugar Refinery; a composite portrait (that may depict Newell); plus small-format prints of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the Sanitary Fair, 3 studies of locomotives (salted paper prints) a host of half-stereos of various cities and sites, and carte-de-visite-size prints of paintings, caricatures, allegorical figures, circus performers, Lincoln and his family, Union generals, and commemorative sculptural figures. Salted paper (4) and albumen (456) prints, sizes ranging from 3x2 1/4 to 9 1/4x7 1/2 inches (7.6x5.7 to 23.5x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, many are captioned, in ink, below the image. Folio, boards, disbound; contents largely detached and loose. 1864-70
Robert Newell (1822-1897) recorded important events in Philadelphia, such as the 1864 Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission and commercial, residential and ecclesiastical buildings throughout the city.
This remarkable album documents the city during the Civil War and also chronicles related topical events. Featured are a host of images that provide an encyclopedia look at popular imagery that constituted a still-emerging American identity and culture.
