Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Allan Pinkerton ("E.J. Allen") of the Secret Service on horseback, copy 1].
Call Number
D North 58/GC131/Box 56/Oversize/19th c./U.S. History/Civil War GA 2011.00172
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctd96kg124
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1862.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1862
Extent
1 item ; print 17.8 x 23 cm. sheet 42.4 x 52.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Augustin J. Powers [through Charles Powers, Princeton University Class of 1938].
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Albumen prints
Depiction: Full-length equestrian portrait, right profile of Pinkerton, tents in background.
Signed in imprint on mount, lower center: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alex Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. // M. B. Brady, Publisher".
Signed in imprint on mount, lower left: "Gardner, Photographer".

Discovery Information

Subject
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884—Portraits
Portraits, American—19th century
Equestrian portraits, American—19th century
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Portraits
Secret service—United States—History—Civil War, 18611865—Portraits
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b536d15b-c4f1-4329-891d-20e6dfb038b5/manifest