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[Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, facing left, standing alongside his war horse, Cincinnati"]" – Vintage Photo Print

[Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, facing left, standing alongside his war horse, Cincinnati"]", [1864 June 4, printed later] — historic photograph
[Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, facing left, standing alongside his war horse, Cincinnati"]", [1864 June 4, printed later]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, facing left, standing alongside his war horse, Cincinnati"]". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Here Grant stands in full length, turned to the left and posed beside his war horse, Cincinnati, a detail that sets this portrait apart from the many head-and-shoulders studies of the general. The photograph is an albumen print, a process widely used in the 1860s that gave sharp detail and a warm tone, and its date of June 4, 1864 places it during the Overland Campaign in Virginia, when Grant was directing the Union armies against Robert E. Lee. Pictures like this helped build the public image of the commanding general as a steady, hands-on soldier, and the horse itself became a familiar companion in wartime publicity.

Created / published[1864 June 4, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print :albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesPublished in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
SubjectsGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Military service. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,461 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218444

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