POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF GENERAL THOMAS HART TAYLOR, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

POST-WAR UNMOUNTED SILVER PRINT OF GENERAL THOMAS HART TAYLOR, FROM A RICHMOND PHOTOGRAPHER, GEORGE S. COOK & SONS

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Measures approximately 5.5 inches by just under 3.75 inches wide. Photograph features a waist-up view of Confederate General Thomas Taylor.

The reverse of the image shows a pencil notation: “Taylor” as well as “470” and “(Cook)” denoting the photographer.

Overall, this image is in good condition. There are minor pushes to the corners. The upper lefthand corner was bent and is in fragile condition. No other issues to note.

Thomas Hart Taylor was born in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 31, 1825. He attended colleges in both Ohio and Kentucky. During the Mexican War Taylor served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry. After the war he had a varied business career that included driving cattle to California.

On the outbreak of the Civil War Taylor enlisted and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel and then Colonel of the 1st Kentucky Infantry. After service on the Peninsula, Taylor’s regiment was mustered out in the summer of 1862. Taylor went to East Tennessee and reported to General Kirby Smith. Taylor was given command of a brigade in Stevenson’s Division and served at Cumberland Gap. He was promoted to Brigadier General on November 4, 1862, but was never confirmed. Taylor next went to Vicksburg where he served as General Pemberton’s Provost Marshall. He was captured on the fall of the city. After his exchange Taylor commanded the District of South Mississippi and East Louisiana. Later he served as Provost Marshall on General S. D. Lee’s staff and ended the war as commander of the post at Mobile, Alabama.

After the war he became businessman in Mobile but in 1870 returned to Kentucky. Taylor was a US Deputy Marshall for 5 years and Chief of Police in Louisville for eleven years. He died in Louisville on April 12, 1901, and is buried in State Cemetery in Frankfort.

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.   [cla] [ph:cla]

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