Posted 12 years ago
rniederman
(348 items)
This mid-1860s CDV caught my eye for a couple reasons. First, the amazing hand tinting of the woman produced a vibrantly colored scarlet dress. Next, the image comes from “Brady’s National Portrait Gallery” and includes a canceled 2-cent tax stamp (proprietary series) on the verso. Mathew Brady is best known for making portraits of celebrities and documenting the American Civil War. Cameras attributed to his studios are highly coveted by collectors - unfortunately I don't have a Brady camera.
However, this CDV includes a paste-on label covering part of the Brady stamp with the description: “Specialiste. Selby & McCauley Photograph Album & Carte de Visite Depot”. It seems that Selby & McCauley added their label to CDVs of famous people taken by firms such as; Israel & Co., E. & H.T. Anthony, Brady’s galleries, and others. Examples of CDVs with Selby & McCauley labels include Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, and numerous civil war officers such as Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, General Edward Ferrero, Gen. Samuel Crawford and others.
Could it be that the woman in this picture was someone notable?
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Update (2016-06-09) ... Wow ... CW'ers are amazing and after 4 years posted in S&T the woman in this CDV is now identified as Miss Madelaine Henriques, a well-known actress in the 1860s. Huge thanks go out to Celiene in putting a name to the image which answers my original question if the woman was someone notable. Lots of informative links appear below.
Nice image-- I don't recognize her, but the added resale label would suggest that she is someone!
scott
Excellent coloring,thanks for sharing.
Really Pretty!!!!
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the coloring is gorgeous - a haunting image. thanks for sharing!
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She is lovely. It is such a wonderful photo too. If she is familiar to anyone they will easily recognize her from this image. Post it far and wide, I'll bet you get answers. Good luck. Thank you for sharing her.
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Really Beautiful!!!!!
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What a rare find--I have never had a Brady, nor will I, unless someone slips one thru eBay. Then, I too would spend my days trying t0 identify her. MUST be somebody special! My great grandson, 20, collectes carte de visite, and especially tinted ones-- Wait til he see this--He haunts Antique stores all over AZ and has quite a collection, as do I. But what a GEM is this!!
Hi PostCardCollector ... thanks for the 'love' and comment. This image was an eBay purchase. I've seen numerous Brady Gallery images for sale ... and unlike this CdV, nearly all aren't very interesting. But examples with the paste-on label are uncommon.
You really know what you are doing. What will you find next!
Wondering if you can date the camera on the back of my photo as ad for photographer, OK Baker of Granville,N,Y. --if you see a posting of mine with old 1920 cards lined up==look at photo 2 & 3 please--postcardcollector. Lois--and many thanks!!!
Here is an online collection of Brady-Handy Collection Originals - 5000 of them. Click on the 'View All' and have fun looking!
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/brhc/
OMG! I found her! And the only copy is ruined! She is Miss Madelaine Henriques!!!
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpbh.02250/?co=brhc
She was an actress. Here she is with the dress tinted blue on a Kodak Stereopticon!
http://www.geh.org/fm/ST05/htmlsrc/m197914840031_ful.html
She was born in 1841 died 1929.
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/19thcenturyactors/id/266
Celiene ... incredible detective work!!! Many thanks for identifying her.
Proper spelling is Madeleine Henriques (It's spelled both ways.) Here someone has restored the bad negative and colorized in 2009.
http://www.staylace.com/gallery/gallery05/index_actresses6.html
You are welcome! She lived to 88! I can only find one reference to her. She was New York theatre @Wallack's. Her first (?) play at the age of 20 "The New President" in 1861 & one other in this book of AMerican Theatre from 1916!
https://books.google.com/books?id=3PUsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%22Madeleine+Henriques%22&source=bl&ots=VLAi2kxKAN&sig=j8wvvf3P7tK-rtJMviZcHvUEG98&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKlMa_45vNAhVV92MKHfiHCuQQ6AEITjAN#v=onepage&q=%22Madeleine%20Henriques%22&f=false
Opps - much more about there. She married teh Editor of the NY Times, I.L. Jennings, and had a daughter Gertrude who also was an actress under the last names Jennings & Henriques in London's West End.
This is her daughter!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_E._Jennings
In 1867 Jennings married Madeline Louise Henriques, daughter of David M Henriques of New York.
Her husband:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_John_Jennings
Great work celiene!
scott
Whoa - she would have EIGHT children! It's interesting, because she continued to act up until the 1920s. She must have moved back to New York after her husband died in 1893. Wow - he fought Boss Tweed, too! Her progeny are now part of Royalty, too. FASCINATING!
In 1867 he had married Madeleine Henriques, a leading lady of the New York stage. In due course they would have eight children.
With his early death, Jennings failed to make the impact on British political life which had hoped to make, and his major journalistic achievement — as Editor of the New York Times — was dissipated when he returned to England. But in his day he made a significant mark both as journalist and politician on both sides of the Atlantic, which well deserves to be remembered. Interestingly, politics would stay in the family: in 1898 his daughter Ruth married the eldest son of Charles Ritchie MP, successively Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1900-1903, who was later elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Ritchie of Dundee.
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian//authors/jennings/index.html
Thanks again, Celiene. I started Googling her name and there is a lot of material. You've confirmed our belief that the woman was someone well known.
OK - I have to quit or I will start looking into their grandchildren et cetera! It's sad nothing more was written about HER, other than references in magazines about plays she was in.
I LOVE research! It's kind of an obsession.
Celiene ... your enthusiasm and research skills are definitely an asset to this group. Thanks! - Rob
This says she is raising her DAUGHTERS in England after her husband's death. I guess she had no sons.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=18941008&id=FcwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hmoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5636,6011013&hl=en
WOW! Am I impressed Celiene...
Thanks! LOL - I always wish I could get someone to pay me to do what I love!
Thanks, Brett!