[General Ambrose Burnside]

[General Ambrose Burnside]

Photograph

[General Ambrose Burnside]

1862
Ambrotype
Image: 3 × 2 1/2 in. (7.6 × 6.4 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in. (9.4 × 8.3 × 1.9 cm)
Purchase
1969.0204.0010
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 623
Entry 623 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Damaged ambrotype of Gen. Burnside. Very good likeness. Slip of paper in back of picture has written on it: “A. Y. Walcott Sergt. Major, 21st M.V., to Capt. D.W. Horton, May 2nd, 1862”. From Mrs. Walker N. Browne, Miur [?], Mich. Who got it from relatives of Burnside. Cost $1.75. Even damaged, worth $2.50
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