Cabinet card of Gideon Welles

American Gideon Welles American Mathew Brady

1860

Medium: albumen and silver on photographic paper on cardboard
Genre: Cartes-de-visite
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

Cartes-De-Visite

Tags

militaryGovernmentpoliticsU.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865

About

This cabinet card depicts Gideon Welles on a Mathew Brady mount. Shown from the waist up, he wears a black frock coat and waistcoat over a white shirt. A pocket watch chain T-bar is visible in one buttonhole. There is text at the bottom left corner of the card mount that reads "Brady, Photo, New York." The reverse of the card mount has text that reads "Imperial Carte de Visite, / by/ BRADY/ NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY/ No. 785 Broadway, / New York, / 627 Pennsylvania Avenue, / Washington, / D. C."