group portraits

Coronation 1965, the King & Queen

Photograph shows the newly-crowned King Palden Thondup Namgyal and Queen Hope Cooke walking in procession, Gangtok, Sikkim. Title from item. Slide used for the presentation: "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim"... More

HM the Gyalmo, HH Prince Palden, HH Princess Hope

Photograph shows Queen Hope Cooke with her children, Prince Palden and Princess Hope Leezum, Gangtok, Sikkim.

[Prince Palden Gyumed and Princess Hope Leezum seated on white scarves...

[King and Queen of Sikkim and their daughter Hope Leezum watch birthda...

Title devised by Library staff. Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-69. Slide used for the presentation: "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Co... More

Princess Hope & Queen Hope in the palace, Sikkim

Date from information on related slide: LC-KAN05-0072. Title from item. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 027 ... More

King of Sikkim

Photograph shows Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, receiving white scarves as a sign of purity and an open heart on his birthday, from a Bhotia man, Gangtok, Sikkim.

King of Sikkim receives scarves, Sikkim

Photograph shows Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, receiving white scarves as a sign of purity and an open heart on his birthday, from a Lepcha man, Gangtok, Sikkim.

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikk...

Title devised by Library staff. Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-69. Slide used for the presentation: "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Co... More

[Rembrandt and his wife Saskia] / Rembrandt.

Assis, au près du toy ... à ton Art divin! / A. Watteau pinxit. ; Tard...

Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Tardieu in a park, one painting a picture of a statue of nude woman, the other playing a stringed instrument; and poem to Watteau below image.

Full-length standing portraits of Charles, Prince of Wales, the future...

After painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.

Excellentissmo D. Domino Jacobo Superantio Veneto ac Senatori Amplissm...

The Virgin and child with three Dominican Saints. After a work by Giovanni Battisto Tiepolo in the church of I Gesuati, Venice. De Vesme, 54 (2nd state).

Frontispiece [Fox, Burke, and North, head-and-shoulders portrait, faci...

Title from item. Illus. in: The beauties of Fox, North, and Burke, selected from their speeches, from the passing of the Quebec act, in the year 1774, down to the present time ... / Charles James Fox. London : ... More

Portrait d'apres nature du Sr. Harné natif de Dôle en Franche Comté Gr...

Print shows Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, and Sr. Humbert, leaders, respectively, of the first and second assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, full-length portrait, standing, facing each other... More

Portrait d'aprés nature du Sr. Humbert, Compagnon Horloger, natif de L...

Print shows Sr. Humbert and Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, leaders, respectively, of the second and first assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, half-length portrait, facing each other, each in o... More

James Hamilton, M.D. Revd. John Wesley, M.A. Revd. Joseph Cole as they...

Print shows in right profile, from left to right, 1. James Hamilton, 2. Revd. John Wesley, and 3. Revd. Joseph Cole as they walk arm in arm on an Edinburgh street. Title from item. Printed at top: Eighty seven ... More

[Congress voting the Declaration of Independence]

Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson... More

[Head-and-shoulders portraits of Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Pete...

A few small temples still retain their lines of classic beauty. With t...

Photographs show ruins of the Acropolis and Frank Carpenter with the Prime Minister of Greece, Colonel Stylianos Gonatas, Athens, Greece. Title from item. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. Written ... More

[Family group - Smith, his wife and six children pointing at examples ...

(DLC/PP-1995:140.27) Philadelphia Print Shop inventory no. 27. Title from Philadelphia Print Shop inventory. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

Saints Ambrose, Gregory, Jerome & Augustine--confessors & doctors of t...

Saints Ambrose, Gregory, Jerome, and Augustine, looking at book.

Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford / painted by T...

Scott, Mackenzie, Wilson, Crabbe, Lockhart, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, Ferguson, Moore, Allen, Campbell, Wilkie, and Constable seated at table. Engraved for the Eclectic magazine.

Mohamedan ecclesiastics, the one with the green turban a lineal descen...

Title from item. Purchase; Brad Verter, Carpe Librum; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:006). Forms part of: Qajar paintings commissioned by Justin Perkins collection.

Eng-Chang, portrait print

Print shows Eng and Chang, conjoined twins, full-length portrait, standing, facing front; Eng is holding a book open to an illustration of themselves. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statem... More

Dancer with mask and musicians

Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; Brad Verter, Carpe Librum; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:006). Forms part of: Qajar paintings commissioned by Justin Perkins collection.

[Group portrait of an unidentified boy and girl, three-quarter length,...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Case: metal case with leather insert, variant of Rinhart 90, Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Alexander Melville Bell and David Charles Bell, three-quarter length ...

[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing...

Grandmother and aunts of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40. Case: Rinhart 63. Accompanying note in case on stationery of the Arts Club of Washington, in handwriting... More

[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seate...

Possibly Frances Benjamin Johnston's mother, right, and aunt, left. Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather with a central metal lozenge. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: France... More

[Unidentified man and woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:575). Forms part of: Harvey Washington Wiley Papers, ca. 1854-1944 (Library of Congress). Forms part o... More

[Erasmus Darwin and Emily Cooper, three-quarter length portrait, seate...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 138. Accompanying note inside case: Brother and sister, Darwin and Emily Cooper. Addie Hatch, Feb. 28, 1863, Moravia. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1980; (DLC/PP-1980:0... More

[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

[Unidentified woman and girl]

Case: front - Rinhart 120; back - Rinhart 195. Barboza number: 6019.070. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Family scene, group portrait with adults, child, and a dog, in a parlo...

Title devised by Library staff. (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

[David and Ellen Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated]

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 131. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library o... More

[Two unidentified women seated on a sofa, two unidentified men standin...

Case: gold frame design. Accompanying label on case: "30." An inventory by Marian Carson attributes this daguerreotype to Collins. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:095.3). Forms part of: Daguerreo... More

[Henry and William Pinkney Rodgers, three-quarter length portrait, sea...

Photographer unidentified. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 123; back, variant of Rinhart 125. Label on front of case: William Pinkney Rodgers, 1821-1893, Henry Rodgers, 1823-1854. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1... More

[Unidentified group of six women and a boy and girl, three women and t...

Scratched on back of plate: 302. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Emlen Cresson, his mother Sarah Emlen Cresson, his wife Priscilla Pri...

Case: bowl of flowers variant. Purchase; 2005; (DLC/PP-2005:020). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Members of the Cresson and Prichett families, with three seated women...

Embossed on velvet lining inside case: W. & F. Langenheim Philadelphia Exchange. Written on seal: Restored by A.R. Phillips, Jr., May 1943. Case: flowers and butterflies. Probably a copy daguerreotype (a latera... More

[Unidentified man and woman, both about 30 years of age, with a child ...

Scratched on back of plate: 178; 196. Two edges trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Ten unidentified young people, four men and one woman are standing, s...

Scratched on back of plate: 253. Corners rounded. The woman in the lower right corner is possibly the same woman who is depicted in DAG no. 042A (Source: Owen Blevins 4/2017). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; ... More

[Editorial staff of the New York Tribune]

Seated, left to right: George M. Snow, financial editor; Bayard Taylor; Horace Greeley; George Ripley, literary editor; Standing, left to right: William Henry Fry, music editor; Charles A. Dana; Henry J. Raymon... More

[Two unidentified girls, about three and five years of age, the younge...

Scratched on back of plate: 98. Hallmark: [paschal lamb] 40 [Upside down A] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Math... More

[Unidentified man and woman, both about 35 years of age, with a girl a...

Plate trimmed to oval shape. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Military officer and a woman, the officer in uniform, standing, facin...

Photograph shows portrait of military officer and unidentified woman, probably his wife. Title devised by Library staff based on information from National Archives photograph no. 111-B-5731. Scratched on face o... More

Artist group - Mathew Brady seated on left

Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More

[Hickson W. and Mary Elizabeth Field, three-quarter length portrait of...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif surrounded by scrolls. Accompanying note: Mr. & Mrs. Hickson W. Field of Rome. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part ... More

[Adams family portrait, with man, woman, and baby girl]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 31a. Case: variant of Rinhart 140. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:133). Forms part of: John Adams Kingsbury Papers, 1840-1960 (Library of Congress... More

[Three unidentified women]

Case: Rinhart 108. Barboza number: 6019.025. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man and woman, three-quarters length portrait, seated]

Case: flowers surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.022. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library ... More

[Unidentified woman holding child in her lap]

[Unidentified couple, man seated and woman standing]

Case: Eichmeyer style. Barboza number: 6019.023. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Date based upon address of photographer. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerr... More

[Portraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G...

Title devised by Library staff. Tissandier collection.

[Unidentified man and woman, seated, facing front]

Case: front - Rinhart 162; back - oval surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.005. Stamped on silk pad: J. Turpin. Gift; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (L... More

[William Cassiday Cattell, holding large Bible, with five page boys]

Photographer unidentified. Case: curved diamond surrounded by leaves, with linked border. Accompanying note: Wm. Cassady Cattell with the page boys whom he tutored in Abermarle, Va. Transfer; Manuscript Divisio... More

[Elisa and John McAllister, children of W.Y. McAllister, Elisa standin...

Written on paper label on velvet lining inside case: July 23, 1849. Written on paper label on case: Lissie & John McAllister July 23, 1849. Labels adhered to case: "23," "51," and "71." Embossed on velvet linin... More

[Unidentified boys, half-length portraits, probably George F. Becker a...

Identification based on similarities to carte-de-visite photographs in LOT 6507. Case: front - mixed flowers; back - cross motif. Originally in LOT 6507. George Ferdinand Becker Collection. Date based on age of... More

Portrait photograph of a mother and her children

Portrait photograph of an unidentified couple

Archbishop Manning and Bishop T.J. Shahan, half-length portrait, stand...

6483R? U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

[Two unidentified children, a boy and girl, full-length portraits, sea...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 7060. Hallmark: Rinhart 19. Accompanying note: Sewell. I find the enclosed in the writing of Ada T. Stowell. I do not feel sure this is correctly indicated. E.C. Stowe... More

Daniel Carroll of Duddington's family on porch of house, F and 2nd Str...

Photograph shows members of the family of Daniel Carroll (1764-1849) with African American man, seated and standing on the porch of Duddington house, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Caption from another copy of ... More

[Two unidentified girls, full-length portraits, seated on chairs next ...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8775. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: variant of Rinhart 112. Accompanying note: Myron Shew, dealer in daguerreotype materials, No. 116 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Tran... More

[P. J. Espenscheid store, Nevada City, California]

Daguerreotype shows: P. J. Espenscheid's shoe store with an array of men in jackets with white shirts and ties, probably local merchants, standing in front of the store, a pile of litter beside the store, legib... More

[Large group of school children, with their teacher, standing in a tow...

Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:149). Forms part of: Daguerrreotype collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

G'ma Hunter (left) and one of her sisters?

Half-length portrait of Grandma Hunter (left) and possibly, one of her sisters. Case: Rinhart 131. Hallmark: Rinhart 33. Title from accompanying note. Photographer unidentified. Accompanying note: Grandpa Hunte... More

[William Hazard and Moses Augustus Field, three-quarter length portrai...

Case: scroll design. Photographer unidentified. Accompanying note: Wm. H. Field, Moses Augustus Field. Written on inside of case: April 1850. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Fo... More

Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston (organized 1849) / Armstrong & Co...

Print shows a group portrait of six members of the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston with their instruments; shown are, from left, Bernhard Listemann, E.M. Heindl, Rudolph Hennig, Ludwig Emanuel Manoly, Thom... More

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman,...

Corners trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Written on back of plate: 507(X). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew ... More

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age and a boy about 14 years of a...

Scratched on back of plate: 508(X). Hallmark: Rinhart 2. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Group portrait of students, probably members of The Ranters, at Betha...

Repeated to-night grand combination Swiss bell ringers and Continental...

Created by "Clarry & Reilly, Printers, Designers, and Engravers, 12, 14, & 16 Spruce Street, New York." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Mr. Zina Hitchcock Benjamin family, posed left to right: Cornelia, Zi...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Cyanotype of a daguerreotype made between 1845 and 1858 (DAG - no. 1123). No. 8317.

Arnold. Weitling ? Kramer ; T. Sinclairs lith Philada

Print shows Arnold Ruge and Wilhelm Weitling, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Inscribed in ink on verso: No. 207 Dep: May 27 1... More

Five men posed at a fort or trading post, possibly at Scottsbluff, Neb...

Photographer unidentified. Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:146). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

[Two unidentified women, three-quarter length portraits, seated]

Case: back only, basket weave design. Inscribed on brass mat: Marks. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:003). Forms part of: Papers of Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, 1824-1979 (Library of C... More

[Lizzie, John, Annie, and Mitchell McAllister]

Case: front - mixed flowers surrounded by an oval; back - geometric design. Label attached to case: Mitchell, Lizzie, John and Annie. Label attached to case: Lizzie, John, Dec. 5, 1851, Annie, Mitchell McAllist... More

[Two unidentified women, full-length portraits, seated at table with t...

Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Portrait of the Prime family]

Case: plain leather. Label adhered to velvet inside case: "Julia Germain Prime, Wendell Prime, picture of Eddie Prime (died as a child), S. Irenaeius Prime, Eloisa Lemet Prime, Samuel Thornton Keymes [i.e., Kem... More

[Hinckley family, of Albany, New York, full-length group portrait, inc...

[Three unidentified men, all nearly full figures: man on left with sid...

John T. Ford, age 24, Chas E. Ford [age] 2

Photograph shows theater manager John Thompson Ford, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding his child Charles. Title from item. On mount: "Busey, Cor. Charles and Fayette Streets, Baltimore." Norv... More

[Milliner and her daughter]

Photograph shows woman and girl seated at table with bonnets and a doll. Title devised by Library staff. Krainik, no. 67 Gift/Purchase; William B. Becker; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:103). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tinty... More

General Bosquet giving orders to his staff

General Pierre Bosquet standing between four officers, gesturing to the left. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purch... More

General Cissé, chief of the staff to General Bosquet, & aide-de-camp

Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Ismail Pacha & Mr. Thompson of the Commissariat

Ismail Pacha (Hungarian general Kmety), and Mr. Thompson, seated on gabions; three attendants, one holding a horse, standing behind them. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House... More

Colonel Lowe, [i.e., Low] 4th Light Dragoons & servant in winter dress

Colonel Low, full-length portrait, facing left, standing beside horse and wearing winter coat and hat; another man is standing in front of the horse and facing the camera. Bell tents in the background. Title tr... More

Unidentified woman and girl, seated half-length portrait, facing front

Photograph shows woman and girl, probably mother and daughter, wearing printed dresses. Title devised by Library staff. Case (half): Leather; floral design. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Purchase; Lynn Maille... More

[Unidentified man and woman, seated, facing front]

Case: front - mixed flowers surrounded by oval; back - grapes. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.061. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collecti... More

Beecher (family group). Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Copy neg. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; ... More

Officers of the 68th Regiment

Group of officers of the 68th Regiment, four standing and three sitting on the ground, wearing uniforms. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Resea... More

Mr. Thompson, Commissariat

Mr. Thompson, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing uniform, seated on a horse; horse's reins are held by a servant; a conical tent in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton;... More

Nubian servants & horses

Two men, full-length portraits, facing front, standing with horses. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Franc... More

Officers of the 71st Regiment

Officers of the 71st Highlanders with dog, posed before conical tent with military camp in background. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Fra... More

Unidentified woman and girl, seated half-length portrait, facing front

Photograph shows woman and girl, probably mother and daughter, the woman wearing lace gloves. Title devised by Library staff. Case (half): Leather; geometric design. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Purchase; Ly... More

Officers of the 89th Regiment at Cathcart's Hill, in winter dress, Cap...

Captain Leslie Skynner, Lieutenant Francis Knatchbull, Captain Robert Rowland Conyers, Lieutenant John Longfield, and Captain Robert B. Hawley, full-length portrait, wearing uniforms, one standing, two leaning ... More

Two Zouaves

Two French Army Zouaves, wearing uniforms.

Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress

Captain Brown, seated, and servant, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter uniforms, with tents in background. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger F... More

Misses Walker & Eldridge. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil Wa...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More