Gen. Longstreet – Vintage Photo Print
![Gen. Longstreet, [New York] Elias Dexter, 564 Broadway, [between 1860 and 1890] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/25/2514b7bbaa3e-L.webp)
(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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Gen. Longstreet comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gen. Longstreet
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This engraved likeness of James Longstreet, mounted on a carte de visite card, carries the imprint of Elias Dexter's Broadway shop in New York. Longstreet was a Confederate lieutenant general who commanded a corps at Gettysburg in July 1863, and after the war some Southern writers blamed him for the army's defeat there, a dispute that played out in print for decades. The card is undated, but the publisher's address and the period of the record place it between 1860 and 1890. Small cards like this were popular collectibles in those years, and they show how public figures of the war were packaged for a civilian audience.
| Created / published | [New York] Elias Dexter, 564 Broadway, [between 1860 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on carte de visite mount : engraving. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1860-1890.Cartes de visite 1860-1890.Engravings 1860-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. Reference copy in BIOG FILE. |
| Subjects | Longstreet, James,--1821-1904--Military service. Confederate States of America.--Army--People--1860-1870. Military officers--Confederate--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,471 × 2,399 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180414 |
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![[General James Longstreet, C.S.A., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fd/fd723a7de847-400.webp)