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Ulysses Grant and Family at Long Branch, NJ

Pach Brothers · 1870

A cabinet card photograph of Grant, his wife Julia, and their four children at their summer cottage in 1870.

Shows Grant with his wife and children at their summer home, depicting his family life during his presidency.

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Sepia group photograph of a family on a porch with wooden lattice railings. A seated older bearded man in a suit wears a hat on his knee. Beside him, a woman in a white dress and hat sits with a younger woman in a light dress. A standing young boy in a light jacket and hat stands nearby. A man in a dark suit and bowler hat sits in a folding chair at right. Two Black men in dark suits stand at left and in the background.
Pach Brothers, Ulysses Grant and Family at Long Branch, NJ, 1870.

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What it is

This is a cabinet card photograph taken by Pach Brothers of New York in 1870. It shows Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia Dent Grant and their four children, Jesse, Ulysses Jr., Nellie, and Frederick, in front of their summer cottage at Long Branch, New Jersey. Two Black men also appear in the photograph, but their identities are not recorded.

Why it matters

The photograph shows Grant not as a general or president but as a family man at leisure during his presidency. It also raises questions about whose names and lives were recorded by history and whose were not, since the two men present are unnamed.

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  • What does the setting tell you about how presidents and their families lived in this period?
  • Why might the identities of the two Black men not have been recorded, while the family members were?
  • What does this image tell you, and what does it leave out?

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