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

Benjamin Grantz Brown

Artist Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1872
MediumAlbumen
DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 1/2 × 2 5/16 in. (8.9 × 5.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 6.4 cm)
InscribedPrinted on front: "B. Grantz Brown, Sarony, 680 Broadway, G.W. Thorne, 60 Nassau St., New York"
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.
Object number90.254
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an albumen carte de visite depicting Benjamin Grantz Brown, 1826-1885, U.S. Senator, Governor of Missouri.

Label TextStudio of Napoleon Sarony American, 1821−1896 Benjamin Gratz Brown, ca. 1872 Albumen print (photograph) Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826−1885) Republican Senator from Missouri Museum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr. 90.254 Exhibition History"Shooting Lincoln: Photography and the 16th President," Chrysler Museum of Art, February 10 - July 5, 2015.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
ca. 1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Napoleon Sarony
1870 - 1890
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Mathew B. Brady
1860s
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.
Unknown
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles DeForest Fredricks
1860s-1870s