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

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Artist William Shaw Warren (American, d. 1911)
Date1870s
MediumAlbumen
DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (9.5 × 5.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (10.5 × 6.4 cm)
InscribedHandwritten on reverse: "Burnside". Handwritten on front: "Gen. Burnside". Stamped on front: "Warren, 289 Washington St., Boston." Stamped on reverse: "Warren's, 289 Washington St., Boston, Mass., Under the Superintendence of Mr. S.B. Heald".
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.
Object number90.292
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DescriptionThis is an albumen carte de visite depicting Ambrose Everett Burnside, 1824-1881, Union general in the Civil War, Governor of Rhode Island, and U.S. Senator.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
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19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s