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John Alexander Logan and family – Historic Print

John Alexander Logan and family, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
John Alexander Logan and family, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Shown among his family rather than in uniform or at a podium, John Alexander Logan appears here as a private man. Logan rose from Illinois lawyer to Union general and later served as a United States senator, and he is remembered for issuing General Order No. 11 in 1868, which set aside May 30 for decorating soldiers' graves and became the basis of Memorial Day. The print was made from a negative by Mathew Brady, whose Washington studio photographed much of the Civil War-era political and military elite. The caption card gives no date, so the exact timing of the sitting is unknown.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto, 13 x 17 in., from neg. by Mathew Brady. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,259 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142580

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