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[FREDERICK DOUGLASS]. Photograph album with 202 photographs, ca. 1870-1885, 1903. 42 pp., 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. This album features more than seventy portraits of actors, authors, abolitionists, reformers, and political figures, as well as views of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Fair, and a variety of architectural, city views, and sculptures. The album consists of several sections.Portraits, 57 cabinet-sized and 21 carte-de-visite-sized photographs, including:Francis E. Abbot, philosopher & theologianLouis Agassiz, biologist & geologistA. Bronson Alcott, philosopher and reformer (photo by George Kendall Warren, ca. 1872)Louisa May Alcott, novelistSusan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton (photo by Napoleon Sarony, ca. 1870)Matthew Arnold, English poet & criticChester A. Arthur, 21st PresidentHans Balatka, conductor & composerLawrence Barrett, stage actorJosh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)James G. Blaine, Speaker of the HouseEdwin Booth, actor & brother of assassin John Wilkes BoothRobert Browning, English poetWilliam Cullen BryantWilliam Ellery Channing, Unitarian preacherEdna D. Cheney, writer and reformerKate Claxton, actressRoscoe Conkling, U.S. Senator from NYGeorge Willis Cooke, Unitarian ministerCharlotte Cushman, stage actressCharles Darwin, geologist & biologistAnna Dickinson, orator, abolitionist, & women's rights activistGustave Dor (labeled "Dor Dor"),John W. Draper, chemist, photographer, astronomerFrederick Douglass (ca. 1879 portrait by Boston photographer George Kendall Warren)Thomas Edison & phonograph, ca. 1878Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (signed in the negative by George Kendall Warren, 1870)Octavius B. Frothingham, Unitarian ministerLon Gambetta, French lawyer who proclaimed Third French Republic in 1870James A. Garfield, 20th PresidentWilliam Lloyd Garrison, abolitionistWilliam E. Gladstone, British prime ministerEdward Everett Hale, Unitarian ministerRutherford B. Hayes, 19th PresidentThomas W. Higginson, Unitarian minister, abolitionist, army officer, & CongressmanOliver Wendell Holmes, physician polymathJulia Ward Howe, author & poetThomas H Huxley, biologist & anthropologistHenry Irving, English stage actorRobert G. Ingersoll, lawyer, writer, and orator, known as "the Great Agnostic"Fanny Janauschek, Czech-American actressClara Louise Kellogg, opera sopranoMary A. Livermore, journalist & reformerHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, poetJames Russell Lowell, poet & criticJames Martineau, Unitarian philosopherClara Morris, stage actressWendel PhillipsWilliam James Potter, minister & editorRichard A. Proctor, English astronomerCaroline Richings, opera sopranoJohn Ruskin, English polymathJohn Sherman, U.S. Senator from OhioMary Frances Scott-Siddons, India-born British actressEdward A. Sothern "as Lord Dundreary," English actor in Our American CousinCharles Sumner, U.S. Senator from Mass.Ellen Terry, English actress; as "Oliviah"Theodore Thomas, conductor & violinistTheodore Tilton, editor, abolitionist, poetAnthony Trollope, English novelistJohn Towsend Trowbridge, authorCornelius "the Commodore" Vanderbilt, shipping & railroad magnateCharles Voysey, English theistJohn Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet & abolitionistTwenty architectural views, including several images of Washington, D.C., such as the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Executive Office Building, the Treasury Building, the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Renwick Gallery, and the interior of the House of Representatives; panoramic photo of the Viaduct over the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio, by Thomas T. Sweeny of Cleveland; several images of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, including views of the Main Building, the Machinery Hall, the Horticultural Hall, the Art Gallery, and the interior of the Horticultural Hall.Fifty-one photographs of sculptures, several of which were exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, including Pietro Guarnerio, (See website for full description).
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