New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Reuben Eaton Fenton

Artist Charles DeForest Fredricks (American, 1823-1894)

CultureAmerican

Date1860s-1870s

MediumAlbumen

DimensionsOverall, Support: 3 15/16 x 2 7/16 in. (10 x 6.2 cm)
Overall, Image: 3 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. (8.9 x 5.4 cm)

InscribedLogo printed on reverse: "C. D. FREDERICKS & CO / 587 / Broadway, / NEW YORK. / 108 Calle de la Habana, / HABANA. / 31 Passage du Havre, /PARIS.'. Written in ink on mount below image: "Gov. Fenton". Printed on mount at LL: "C. D. FREDERICKS & CO. N.Y.". Logo printed in gray-green; checkerboard pattern.

Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.

Object number90.133

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DescriptionThis albumen carte de visite is a half-length portrait of Reuben Eaton Fenton (1819-1885), U. S. Senator, Governor of New York; involved in Erie Railroad Scandal. This CDV is from C. D. Fredericks & Co., New York, Havana, and Paris. The mount is rectangular; the face of the card is bordered by a single red line. Fenton is turned slightly to his proper right. He has "salt-and-pepper" hair and beard.