AMBROSE BURNSIDE Union Civil War General Cabinet Card Photograph Vintage CDV for Sale

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AMBROSE BURNSIDE Union Civil War General Cabinet Card Photograph Vintage CDV For Sale

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AMBROSE BURNSIDE Union Civil War General Cabinet Card Photograph Vintage CDV:
$12.99

Handmade historical reproduction Cabinet Card of Civil War Union GeneralAmbrose Everett Burnside. The photograph is a Fujifilm Archival Quality Matte Print from the original photograph. Each card has a short bio on the reverse which makes it useful as a history teaching tool in addition to interesting, enjoyable and informative art.
From the Back Bio -

Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a United States Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, as well as countering the raids of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, but suffered disastrous defeats at the terrible Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater. His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns, derived from his last name…

Although Cabinet Cards were not introduced during the American Civil War. Many of the great photographs from the period were exchanged as the smaller Carté de Visité CDV\'s and are just worth looking at now in the larger Cabinet Card style.
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The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture from the 1860’s through the early part of the 20th Century.
It consisted of a thin albumen photographic paper print mounted on a card typically measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches (108 by 165 mm). They are often confused with Carte de Visité (CDV), a similar but smaller format introduced around 1854 in France. CDV’s were very popular during the American Civil War. They tended to be much smaller in a standard 2-1/2\" x 4\" format.
“Cabinet Card” portraits were often presented and exchanged by individuals of position, and social standing. They came to often replace the “calling card” as a currency of social exchange and introduction. They were often kept and displayed in glass “cabinets” to demonstrate the notables pictured in the portraits.