Object Details
- Collection Description
- The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of “Human Curiosities” at P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States.
- La Colección Frederick Hill Meserve contiene más de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la época de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotográfico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colección incluye retratos de militares, políticos, diplomáticos y artistas. También contiene imágenes de “curiosidades humanas” exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. Estas últimas, a pesar de su índole degradante, nos ayudan a documentar la representación histórica de las personas discapacitadas en EE.UU.
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Attribution
- Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
- Sitter
- George Washington Morrison Nutt, 1 Apr 1848 - 25 May 1881
- Minnie Warren, 2 Jun 1849 - 23 Jul 1878
- Date
- c. 1860-70
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
- Medium
- Glass plate collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Plate: 9.5 × 6.4 × 0.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 1/8")
- Support Plate: 9.5 × 18.9 × 0.2 cm (3 3/4 × 7 7/16 × 1/16")
- Type
- Photographic Negative
