1862-ca. 1865
Guide to the Photograph Collection
Restrictions on Access
Use of the originals is restricted. This collection is available as color digital facsimiles (see links below).
Abstract
This collection consists of carte de visite portraits of members of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, taken during the Civil War.
Collection Description
This collection consists of 43 carte de visite portraits of members of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the Civil War, taken from 1862 to ca. 1865. Subjects include Henry Livermore Abbott, Captain William Francis Bartlett, Caspar Crowninshield, Edward N. Hallowell, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Raymond Lee, James Jackson Lowell, George Brinton McClellan, Francis Palfrey, William Lowell Putnam, Paul Joseph Revere, John Sedgwick, and Edwin Vose Sumner, among many others. There are also a small number of cartes de visite of members of the 9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery and the 7th Michigan Infantry Regiment. Photographers include James Wallace Black, Frederick L. Lay, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., as well as Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery of Washington, D.C., among others.
Arrangement
The photographs in this collection are arranged in the order in which they originally appeared in the disbound album.
Processing Information
Volume disbound January 2002; the album was discarded due to preservation concerns. The photographs are numbered in the order in which they appeared in the album. All captions and information from the album pages has been reproduced here.
Acquisition Information
Donor unknown.
Restrictions on Access
Use of the originals is restricted. This collection is available as color digital facsimiles (see links below).
Detailed Description of the Collection
Commanded 2nd Corps.
Commanded 2nd Division, 2nd Corps.
Killed at Gettysburg.
Company A.
Company A.
Company B.
Company C. Killed at Ball's Bluff, Va.
Company C. Killed at Ball's Bluff, Va.
Company I.
Company I.
Company I. Killed at Wilderness, Va., May 1864.
Company H.
Company H.
Company H.
Company D.
Killed at Wilderness, Va., May 1864.
Company H.
Company C.
Company E.
Company E.
Company G.
Company G.
Company F.
Company I.
Company K.
7th Michigan Infantry Regiment.
9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery.
9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery.
9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery
Inscription: "Killed at
Gettysburg."
[N.b.: Whittaker (also spelled Whitaker) was wounded at
Gettysburg but died at Roxbury, Mass.]
9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery.
9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery.
Preferred Citation
20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment carte de visite album, Photo Coll. 67, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo. Archives.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.