You may have some Cartes de Visite (often called cabinet photos) at home, saved in old photo albums, and you may have seen them on Ebay--if you haven't it is well worth a trip through the antiquities section of the offerings. Ancestry.com has a set of civil war Cartes de Visite from New York, and most are identified. You could check out the database and make an educated guess as to who your unidentified ancestor might be, or you could just admire the great images of the men from decades past.
The cabinet photos above are mine, and are not from ancestry.com.
The people in them are not yet identified. If you recognize them, please let me know!
Update July 20: I think the first photo may be of Lieutenant General W. Pyle. I looked up the name of the photographer, L. H. Bonsall, and found a similar photo (identified) for sale at this website: http://www.remainstobeseen.com/index-i-3364-category-CDV.htm.
The people in them are not yet identified. If you recognize them, please let me know!
Update July 20: I think the first photo may be of Lieutenant General W. Pyle. I looked up the name of the photographer, L. H. Bonsall, and found a similar photo (identified) for sale at this website: http://www.remainstobeseen.com/index-i-3364-category-CDV.htm.
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