Cabinet card of Gideon Welles
date: label: Date
content: 1860-1878
name: label: Photograph by
content: Mathew Brady, American, 1822 - 1896
label: Subject of
content: Gideon Welles, American, 1802 - 1878
notes: label: Description
content: 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."
place: label: Place made
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Government
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2018.35.2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: cartes-de-visite
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: albumen and silver on photographic paper on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 4 1/2 × 3 7/16 in. (11.5 × 8.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in. (16.1 × 10.5 cm)