Conspirator's Portraits

[Dave Taylor]

(09-25-2015 01:54 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Susan - I had my keeper of the photographic archives here check the copies of the ca. 1865 CDV - nothing on the back. There were so many photographers in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War that it is anyone's guess. Lots were lined up one right after the other on Pennsylvania Avenue in the same area where Brady's Studio was (and where the building still stands).

I checked my records and found the back of the CDV of Mary Surratt that Mike Kauffman found:



This particular copy of the CDV was duplicated in Cincinnati, Benn Pitman's home. Where it was originally taken around Washington, we don't know.