Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's (1909) (14782545642)

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Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's

Year: 1909 (1900s)

Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914

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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.

Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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, the ambrotype—and more oftenthe tin-type—seized on the beauties and the brave, to handthem down to posterity in something a la Caskie. Canvas had early been replaced by burlaps, domestic,or even tent cloth. Key painted Sumter on the first twoand Washington used the last for Latane. Tubes,brushes and all tools, as well as decent vehicles, were pro-curable only through the blockade. In the later days ofthe war I saw white drugs and castor oil used to prime a largecanvas. All this combined to make most pictures destructibleand the lacking camera let them slide, Like the tenants that leave without warningDown the hack entry of time. Photos there were, but the secret of lifelikeness, andespecially that of indestructibility, had not been whisperedto expectancy. Had it been, what different idea had thesepages been able to give of some who are missed altogether;of more who are done scant justice, even in the most skilfulof modern reproduction. 284 BELLES, BEAUX AND BEAINS OF THE SIXTIES

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CHAPTER XXV A VANISHING PICTURE So important in history and in sentiment is the Burialof Latane, so personal its interest and so singular its dis-appearance, that it demands a special history. Washington was a Virginian by birth, claiming descentfrom the eldest stock of his name. He was a reticent fellow,of intensely nervous temperament, as is frequent with theart-instinct. In his case this was heightened by a lameness,apparently congenital, that slightly disfigured but in nosort disabled him. Those who knew him best in ante-bellumdays at Washington never heard him allude to his lamenessor its cause, nor did he seem to have closer relatives, al-though we understood that his mother was of the Dandridgefamily. He had taste and facility, but was an erratic worker.Dusseldorf had been his alma mater and Leutze claimed himas an old pupil. He went to Richmond early in the war,after leaving several pictures at the capital, in the galleriesof W. W. Corcoran, Mr. James McGuire and others. Welle

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