POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL JAMES HENRY LANE, FROM RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL JAMES HENRY LANE, FROM RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER: GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

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James Henry Lane (b. July 28, 1833, Mathews County, Virginia) was educated at Virginia Military Institute under Stonewall Jackson, earned a master's from the University of Virginia, and taught at military schools throughout the South. At the start of the Civil War, he became a field officer in the 1st North Carolina Regiment, later rising to colonel of the 28th North Carolina. Lane was repeatedly recognized for his leadership and bravery, sustaining multiple wounds and commanding in key battles such as Big Bethel, Gaines Mill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. He surrendered with his brigade at Appomattox.

After the war, Lane pursued a distinguished academic career, teaching at several institutions, including Virginia Tech, the Missouri School of Mines, and Auburn University, where he served for twenty-five years. He retired as professor emeritus in 1907, shortly before his death.

This photograph is a lesser-known photograph type called a silver print, where silver halide is suspended in a gelatin emulsion. This emulsion coats the base and then a chemical wash is poured over the paper exposing the image. This image was produced from the original negative by the Cook Studio in Richmond sometime after 1880.

The Cook studio was owned by George S. Cook whose two sons, George LaGrange Cook and Heustis Cook, also worked as photographers. The father, George S. Cook, is famously known for taking the first combat images of ironclads firing on Ft. Moultrie in 1863. George S. was born in 1819 in Connecticut and moved south to Louisiana in 1839. From there, he moved several times (always remaining in the South), making money as a merchant and studying photography until he eventually wound up in Richmond in 1880, where he bought Anderson’s photography studio. This is where many of the original glass plate negatives came from to reproduce his photographs. The Cook studio also purchased other collections of negatives as well.

This image measures 6.5 inches by 5 inches and features a three-quarter seated view of General Lane in his double-breasted frock coat and his chasseur style kepi.

This photograph is in very good condition with only very minor wear to the corners. There is one minor white spot near the general’s elbow on the left side. The reverse is clean with a pencil notation “Minnis & Cowell / old negative,” allowing us to believe that this image was taken from an original negative by Minnis & Cowell.    [cla] [ph:cla]

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