A Guide to the Natchez Trace Collection Photographs, ca. 1855-1920.


Descriptive Summary
	Title:	Natchez Trace Collection Photographs
	Dates:	ca. 1855-1920.
	Abstract	Collection includes photographs from the southern United States and other regions from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s, featuring prominent leaders and families.
	Extent:	3 feet; 3 daguerreotypes; 9 tintypes; 222 albumen cartes-de-visites; 54 albumen, collodion, and gelatin cabinet cards; 298 albumen and halftone stereographs; 41 other albumen prints; 3 albums with 4 tintypes and 134 cartes-de-visites; 103 gelatin and collodion Kodak prints; 1 platinotype; 6 other gelatin silver prints; 64 lantern slides; 74 postcards; Photographic material
	Language	Materials are in English
	Repository	Center for American HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents

Portraits (cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, and tintypes) include members of several Natchez and Vicksburg area families, such as Archer, Turpin, Finnery, and Drake. Collection also contains portraits of several Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Sterling Price. Some of these were published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. of New York City. Many portraits are unidentified and arranged by photographer. Significant among these photographers are Samuel Anderson, William W. Washburn, William H. Leeson, and Gustave A. Moses of New Orleans; H. J. Herrick, A. L. Blanks, and French & Co. of Vicksburg; and Gurney of Natchez. A small series of Gurney photos of unidentified buildings and houses (probably Natchez) is included. Commercial views of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains were taken by George E. Mellen, William Henry Jackson, and others. The many stereographs include scenes of Vicksburg made by Herrick and Blanks, views of Baltimore, and two famous White House views published by J. F. Jarvis in 1873. The hand-tinted theater stereographs from France were common in the 1860s and 1870s. Two stereopticons are available for viewing stereographs. The large series of unidentified Kodak prints (ca. 1900) consists of views of the Matt Stewart Hardware Store, a parade, bicyclists and photographers in action, and various groups of people. They were probably taken in the area along the Mississippi River between Memphis and St. Louis. The lantern slides include Washington D. C. street scenes, churches, and federal buildings. The Panama slides are primarily of street scenes in Panama City and Colon and of the construction of the Panama Canal.

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Index Terms

	Subjects (Persons)
		Anderson, Samuel (photographer)
		Archer, James J.
		Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
		Blanks, A. L. (photographer)
		Breckenridge, John Cabell?
		Clark, Champ; Herrick, H. J. (photographer)
		Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall"
		Jackson, William Henry (photographer)
		Lee, Robert Edward
		Leeson, William H. (photographer)
		Mellen, George E. (photographer)
		Moses, Gustave A. (photographer)
		Price, Sterling
		Rosser, Thomas L.?
		Sheridan, Philip Henry
		Taylor, Richard
		Washburn, William Watson (photographer)
		Zollicoffer, Felix Edward
	Subjects (Places)
		Manitou Springs, Colorado
		Washington, D. C.
		Saint Augustine, Florida
		Baltimore, Maryland
		Groton, Massachusetts
		Natchez, Mississippi
		Vicksburg, Mississippi
		Fort Sumter, South Carolina
		France
		Panama
		Mississippi River
		Mount Vernon (Virginia)
		Panama Canal
		Pike's Peak (Colorado)
		Rocky Mountains
		White House (Washington, D.C.)
	Subjects
		Bicycles
		Blacks
		Children and youth
		Civil War - Military leaders, Confederate
		Floods
		Houses and housing
		Merchants and stores
		Parades and processions
		Photographers and photography
		Rivers and streams
		Stereographs
	Subjects (Organizations)
		Anthony, E. & H. T., & Co. (New York photograph publisher)
		French & Company (Vicksburg photography studio)
		Gurney's Photograph and Fine Art Gallery (Natchez??? Mississippi)
		Herrick & Dirr (Vicksburg, Mississippi, Photography Studio)

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Related Material


	Comprises the photographic component of the larger Natchez Trace Collection, housed at the same repository.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Natchez Trace Collection Photographs, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Box

3Y423

Identified persons, ca. 1860s - 1890s:

Civil War soldiers unidentified, ca. 1861-1865

Portraits of French military leaders, by Estienne of Paris, ca. 1860s

Unidentified persons, arranged by photographer/studio, ca. 1860s-1890s:

New Orleans and other Louisiana photographers

Vicksburg photographers

Natchez and other Mississippi photographers

Alabama and Tennessee photographers

Other photographers

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Box

3Y424

Places:

Scenes of Natchez[?], by Gurney's Photograph Gallery, ca. 1860s

North Carolina, ca. 1870s

Massachusetts and Minnesota

Commercial views of Colorado, ca. 1870s - 1890s

France and the Philippines

Unidentified

Unidentified Kodak prints, probably from along Mississippi River, ca. 1900

Manuscript letterheads, 1831, 1859, and undated

Color slides of Natchez Trace Collection sheet music

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Box

3Y425

Photograph albums, ca. 1860s- 1870s:

Identified cartes-de-visite of the Archer, Turpin, Drake, Finnery

Families and others of the Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi areas

Box

3Y426

Identified and unidentified cartes-des-visites

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Box

3Y427

Stereographs:

"Southern Scenery in and Around Vicksburg," by H. J. Herrick, ca. 1870s

"View of Vicksburg," by A. L. Blanks, ca. 1870s

"Views in Baltimore and Vicinity, MD.," published by E. and H. T. Anthony & Co., ca. 1860s

Views of rooms of the White House, published by J. F. Jarvis, 1873

Other places in the U.S., ca. 1860s - 1870s:

Thomaston, Maine

Mt. Washington (New Hampshire)

Fort Sumter, Florida

St. Augustine, Florida

Yosemite, California

Humorous scenes published by Griffith and Griffith, ca. 1900

"Stereoscopic Treasures," published by F. G. Weller, ca. 1871

American Stereoscopic Company, hand-colored scenic views and subjects, 1897-1901 and undated

"Gems of Statuary by Eminent Sculptors," possibly photographed by William England and published by the London Stereoscopic Company, ca. 1860s - 1870s

Views of France, various publishers, ca. 1860s - 1870s

Miscellaneous scenes, 1871, 1903, and undated

Box

3Y428

French theater views, hand tinted:

"Actualities Theatricales," published by A. Marion, 1866-1872

"Les Theatres de Paris," published by B. K., ca. 1870

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Box

3Y429

Lantern slides:

Washington, D.C., views published by E. B. Thompson, ca. 1910

Panama and building of the Panama Canal, published by Williams, Brown, & Earle, and others, 1906-1914

Champ Clark, undated

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Box

3Y3b

Cased photographs:

Porterfield family member, daguerrotype, undated

Murdock[?] family member, daguerrotype, undated

Unidentified and uncased daguerrotype, undated

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Box

3Y4

Large cased photograph:

Three persons actors[?] out of doors in costumes[?], unidentified and tintype undated

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Box

3S119b

Postcards:

Den-Tex Hotel Court, Denison, Texas

Flooding along Mississippi River, 1912

Vicksburg and other Southern cities and places

Mount Vernon, Virginia

Groton and other Massachusetts

Booklet of views of Saint-Servan, France

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Box

2.325/X30

Artifact collection:

Stereopticons

Box

2.325/X9

Leather-bound cabinet card photograph album

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Box

3S236

Oversize Photographs

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