Summary:
Collection of carte-de-visite photographs and engravings from an album received by Miriam Young Hardy at settlement of the Brigham Young estate. Contains portraits of Young family members, Church leaders, Civil War military officers of both the Union and Confederacy forces, U.S. government officials, and other prominent people of the 1840s-1870s.
Photographs of Young family members include: John W. Young, Mary Ann Angell Young, Mary Ann Ayers Young, and Naamah K. J. Carter Young. One studio view of a possible female Young standing by chair is unidentified. Photographs of Church leaders include: Ezra T. Benson, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, and Brigham Young.
Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saints were probably familiar with many of the military officers and government leaders as acquaintances or adversaries during the Mexican War, Utah Expedition, and federal administration during the Utah territorial era.
Several photographs are not labeled. Collection includes political cartoon "The Great Surrender" showing miniature photographs of Earl Russell, Mason, Slidell, and Secretary Seward and artistic images labeled "On to Richmond" and "All Quiet on the Potomac." Also includes photo of unidentified man labeled "Specimen Brick" and caricature labeled "Disgusted Secesh Leaving Dixie".
Photographers in the collection include E. Anthony and E. and H. T. Anthony (borrowed images from Brady's negatives), New York; Charles D. Fredricks & Co., New York; Perry (Bookbinder), Philadelphia; J. E. McClees, Philadelphia; Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York; Savage and Ottinger, Salt Lake City; and Hermann Ohm, Copenhagen, Denmark.