McCardle (Mrs. W. H.) Photograph Collection PI/1985.0017
Annie E. Fort (1839-1913) of Columbus, Mississippi, amassed a collection of sixty-six carte de visite photographs of Confederate political and military figures, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John C. Pemberton, John Wilkes Booth, L. Q. C. Lamar, E. Battle Fort (her brother), and Col. William H. McCardle (her husband), as well as Union general Alfred Pleasonton and Union admiral David Dixon Porter and the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, William Mercer Green. Fort became the second wife of Confederate soldier, Whig journalist, and historian Col. William H. McCardle (1815-1893) in December 1868.
Her elder daughter, Annie F. McCardle (1870-1963), a clerk in the General Land Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior and member of the Mississippi Historical Society, donated her mother’s photo collection to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History on June 23, 1958.
Cartes de visite are paper photographs mounted on thin cards measuring approximately 4 x 2½ inches - the size of visiting cards, which gave the format its name. In the 1850s and '60s carte-de-visite photographs were popular collector items, and tradesmen sold albums designed specifically to hold them.
Read MoreAnnie E. Fort (1839-1913) of Columbus, Mississippi, amassed a collection of sixty-six carte de visite photographs of Confederate political and military figures, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John C. Pemberton, John Wilkes Booth, L. Q. C. Lamar, E. Battle Fort (her brother), and Col. William H. McCardle (her husband), as well as Union general Alfred Pleasonton and Union admiral David Dixon Porter and the first Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, William Mercer Green. Fort became the second wife of Confederate soldier, Whig journalist, and historian Col. William H. McCardle (1815-1893) in December 1868.
Her elder daughter, Annie F. McCardle (1870-1963), a clerk in the General Land Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior and member of the Mississippi Historical Society, donated her mother’s photo collection to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History on June 23, 1958.
Cartes de visite are paper photographs mounted on thin cards measuring approximately 4 x 2½ inches - the size of visiting cards, which gave the format its name. In the 1850s and '60s carte-de-visite photographs were popular collector items, and tradesmen sold albums designed specifically to hold them.
Image Arrangement and Numbering
The photographic curator numbered the cartes de visite in the order they were received from Annie F. McCardle.
Technical Details
Digital Photographs: The original scans of the McCardle (Mrs. W. H.) Photograph Collection were made by the Image & Sound Section staff in 2010, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees' approved imaging procedures, following ANSI/AIIM recommended practice. The images were scanned as uncompressed, 24-bit RGB TIFF files at 600 pixels per inch.
Conversion: For Web display, the original scans of the McCardle (Mrs. W. H.) Photograph Collection were converted to JPEG images in 2011.
Rights Management
There are no known rights restrictions to the McCardle (Mrs. W. H.) Photograph Collection. MDAH asks that each image used in a presentation, display, or publication be accompanied by the following credit statement:
Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Copy Availability
High-resolution TIFFs of the images may be purchased from MDAH. The MDAH Public Order procedure and fee schedule apply. Consult the Photoreproduction and Digital Imaging policy or contact MDAH Reference Staff for order options as well as information on how to obtain and complete the necessary Public Order forms: 601-576-6876 or refdesk@mdah.ms.gov.