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Civil War Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.
Estimate: $500-$700
Passed
Live Auction
Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Location
Cincinnati
Description

Civil War
Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.


12 x 10 in. paper mount featuring a collage with circular and oval portraits ranging in size from 3/4 in. diam. to 1 5/8 in. diam. Hand-colored designs embellished with ink connect the rounded portraits of men, women, and children, almost certainly members of the same family. Portraits of Union Generals Ambrose E. Burnside and George McClellan are featured on each side of the collage. Both men played prominent roles in the Civil War, with each serving as commander of the Army of the Potomac between 1861 and 1862.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Condition
Paper mount with some toning and adhesive residue to left margin.