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Colonel Albert W. Drake
Image Not Available for Colonel Albert W. Drake

Colonel Albert W. Drake

PhotographerPhotographed by Prescott & Gage American, 1861 - 1865
Date1861-1862
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 x 2 1/4in. (7.6 x 5.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/4 x 2 3/8in. (9.5 x 6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionThree-quarter length portrait of a man wearing a military uniform. He has a mustache. He is seated in a chair in front of a fluted column on a high base, probably part of a painted studio backdrop.
Object number1988.206.0
InscribedOn verso, upper center, in pencil, "COL ALBERT W DRAKE / CONN VOL"; lower left, in pencil, "88242"; lower right, in pencil, "1988.206.0"NotesSubject Note: Albert W. Drake served with the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Rifle Company A, and later as a Colonel with the Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He died June 5, 1862. He was from Hartford.
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Gift of Benjamin Adams, 1910.5.1, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Prescott & Gage
1861-1865
Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.74,   © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Prescott & Gage
1861-1865
Gift of Clifford T. Alderman  2012.233.59  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Prescott & Gage
1861-1864
Gift of Clifford T. Alderman  2012.233.64  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Prescott & Gage
1862-1863
Gift of Clifford T. Alderman, 2012.233.94  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Prescott & Gage
1861-1865
Gift of Dorry H. Swope, 2018.53.2461, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Prescott & Gage
Caroline Curtis
Prescott & Gage
1855-1865
Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.75  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Prescott & Gage
1861-1865
Gift of Dorry H. Swope, 2018.53.2453, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Prescott & Gage
1860-1865
Gift of Clifford T. Alderman, 2012.233.56  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
I. G. Steiger's Photograph Gallery
1862-1865