Portrait of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

ID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27A_098]

Creator: Vellen, H

Form/Genre: Clippings

Date: Undated

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27A, Image No. SIA_000095_B27A_098

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Summary

Engraving by H. Vellen after an 1887 photograph by Mathew Brady.

Subject

  • Davis, Jefferson 1808-1889
  • Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents

Notes

  • Archives No. SA-465
  • President of Confederacy during the American Civil War, Smithsonian Regent, U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, U.S. Secretary of War; b. Christian, now Todd Co., KY, d. New Orleans, LA
  • Clipped from "Abraham Lincoln; A History of the United States from the Pioneer Days to the Reconstruction; the Full and Intimate Record at First Hand of the Private Life and Public Career of a Great American and the Inside History of an Heroic Epoch ℗ʺ Volume 3," by John George Nicolay and John Hay, 1914.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27A, Image No. SIA_000095_B27A_098

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

Undated

Restrictions & Rights

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  • No Known Copyright

Topic

Portraits

Form/Genre

Clippings

Local number

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27A_098]

Physical description

Engravings (prints); 7 x 4.5;

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