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Portraits of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Richard W. Thompson, and William T. Sherman

I. W. Taber · 1880

An album page of four photographic portraits, including President Hayes, grouping him with Civil War general Grant, General Sherman, and Navy Secretary Thompson.

Hayes appears here as president, grouped with military and political figures of his administration's era.

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A mounted album page with four sepia portrait photographs in a red-bordered frame, captioned Gen'l U. S. Grant, President R. B. Hayes, Hon. R. W. Thompson, Sec'y U. S. Navy, and Gen'l W. T. Sherman, U.S. Army. A central banner reads Photographed by I. W. Taber, 1880.
I. W. Taber, Portraits of Grant, Hayes, Thompson, and Sherman, 1880.

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What it is

This is a mounted page with four sepia photographic prints, each captioned by name: General U. S. Grant, President R. B. Hayes, Secretary of the Navy R. W. Thompson, and General W. T. Sherman. The prints were made by photographer I. W. Taber in 1880.

Why it matters

The grouping shows how Hayes was linked in the public eye with leading Republican and military figures of his era, including Grant and Sherman, heroes of the Civil War, and his own cabinet official Thompson. Such composite photo pages were a common way to present a shared political and military elite to the public.

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  • Why might a photographer arrange these four men together on one page?
  • What does the choice of these particular men say about who was considered important in 1880?
  • What is left out of this image about the real differences between these men's roles and views?

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