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

Supreme Court Of The United States

Artist Mathew B. Brady (American, 1823-1896)

CultureAmerican

Date1868

MediumAlbumen

DimensionsOverall, Support: 2 7/16 x 3 15/16 in. (6.2 x 10 cm)
Overall, Image: 1 15/16 x 3 5/16 in. (4.9 x 8.4 cm)

InscribedImprinted on reverse: "M.B. BRADY & CO'S / National Photographic / Portrait Gallery, / No. 352 Pennsylvania Ave. / WASHINGTON, D. C". Written below Brady's logo: "1 - Stephen J. Field / 2 - Saml. T. Miller / 3 - Nathan Clifford / 4 - Saml. Nelson / 5 - Salmon P. Chase, (Chief Justice) / 6 - Robt. E. Grier / 7 - Noah A. Swayn / 8 - David Davis". Printed below image at bottom: "COPYRIGHT SECURED.] / Supreme Court of the United States.--1868 / [BRADY & CO". Handwritten below each justice are the numbers one through eight.

Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.

Object number90.95

Not on view

DescriptionThis carte de visite is a group portrait of members of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1868. They are as follows, left to right: Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899), Associate Justice; Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890), Associate Justice; Nathan Clifford (1803-1881), Associate Justice; Attorney General under President Polk; Samuel Nelson (1792-1873) Associate Justice; Chief Justice Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873), Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, and Chief Justice, 1864-1873; Robert Cooper Grier (1794-1870), Associate Justice; Noah Haynes Swayne (1804-1884), Associate Justice; David Davis, Associate Justice from 1862-1877. The mount is rectangular with a border of double gilt lines around the image.