[Album of photographic art reproductions of 19th century paintings]

[Album of photographic art reproductions of 19th century paintings]

Bound volume

[Album of photographic art reproductions of 19th century paintings]

ca. 1875
Bound volume with albumen silver prints and tintypes
Overall (closed): 1 3/4 × 3 3/16 × 7/8 in. (4.5 × 8.1 × 2.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing 34 albumen silver prints and 3 tintypes, 2 images per page. Most are art reproductions of 19th century paintings. There are also portraits of General Philip Sheridan, General William Tecumseh Sherman, and General Ambrose Everett Burnside, as well as three tintype portraits of unidentified sitters. Album has red leather cover with embossed gold design on front and back covers.
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on inside of back cover, TR: SSJr (?) \ Chgo \ 11[circled] 13 \ 78 (?) \ 3/43

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