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Jeff Davis CDV

Item# 19523

Price: $300

Jefferson Davis CDV (carte-de-visite of Davis in ¾ pose) used with U.S. revenue stamp on verso canceled June 26, 1865, on stamp and dated June 27th 1865 above that; imprint of Vannerson & Jones, Photographic Artists, No. 77 Main St, Richmond, Va. Wonderful collectible in excellent condition. $300.

Julian Vannerson and Charles E. Jones opened a studio in Richmond in 1861. (whose name sometimes appears as “Julius Vannerson”) developed a lucrative business photographing Confederate officers and soldiers. At the time, Vannerson’s professional reputation rivaled that of Mathew Brady. The last public record of Mr. Vannerson was his purchase of Mr. Jones’s half of their studio in 1866, which was sold three years later to the father-and-son team of John and William Davies, and renamed the Lee Gallery. Mr. Vannerson, who never married or left any descendants, reportedly died in Richmond sometime after 1875. However, there is no record in Richmond of either his death or burial. The wet-collodion glass plate negative of Mr. Vannerson’s iconic portrait of General Robert E. Lee is part of the Library of Congress’s extensive Civil War photographic collection. Several of Mr. Vannerson’s salt prints can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC (now part of the Smithsonian Institution). Source: Historic Camera

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