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Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A. / F. Gutekunst, [...] Philada. – Vintage Print

Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A. / F. Gutekunst, [...] Philada., c1865. — historic photograph
Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A. / F. Gutekunst, [...] Philada., c1865.. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General, U.S.A. / F. Gutekunst, [...] Philada., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This portrait shows Ulysses S. Grant with the title "Lieutenant-General, U.S.A.," the rank Congress revived in 1864 and gave to him as he took command of all Union armies. The photographer, F. Gutekunst of Philadelphia, was a well-known studio portrait maker of the period, and the image dates to about 1865, the year Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. The print is an albumen print, the dominant photographic process of the 1860s, made from paper coated with egg white and silver salts. Such cartes and portraits were widely sold and collected, which helped make Grant one of the most recognizable faces of the war's final year.

Created / publishedc1865.
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,119 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109588

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