Unidentified photographer, 1864 (ca), Civil War-era photocollage with scores of cut-out albumen portraits and period engravings, Photocollage, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/35590
Unidentified photographer 1864 (ca) Civil War-era photocollage with scores of cut-out albumen portraits and period engravings
In the center of this artful construction is a grieving widow, who's surrounded by pictures of Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Generals Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman, President Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb, and a host of (unidentified) family members, several of whom are Union soldiers; many of the figures have a handwritten number (lacks the "key").
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 57.
