William Frederick Milton Arny

Object Details

Attribution

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Sitter

William Frederick Milton Arny, 9 May 1813 - 18 Sep 1881

Formerly identified as

Seth Kinman, active c. 1864

Collection Description

The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of “Human Curiosities” at P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States.

La Colección Frederick Hill Meserve contiene más de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la época de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotográfico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colección incluye retratos de militares, políticos, diplomáticos y artistas. También contiene imágenes de “curiosidades humanas” exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. Estas últimas, a pesar de su índole degradante, nos ayudan a documentar la representación histórica de las personas discapacitadas en EE.UU.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

c. 1860-70

Object number

NPG.81.M3859.1

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photographic Negative

Medium

Glass plate collodion negative

Dimensions

Image: 9 × 6.2 cm (3 9/16 × 2 7/16")

Plate: 9 × 12.4 × 0.3 cm (3 9/16 × 4 7/8 × 1/8")

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Location

Currently not on view

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Interior

Home Furnishings\Furniture

Costume\Headgear\Hat

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard

Costume\Headgear\Hat\Fur

Home Furnishings\Blanket

William Frederick Milton Arny: Male

William Frederick Milton Arny: Politics and Government\Government official\Secretary of New Mexico Territory

Portrait

Record ID

npg_NPG.81.M3859.1

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm44b348046-996a-44b4-b757-f4ce87dd878f