9 x 7 in. album containing approx. 185 CDVs of generals, statesmen, abolitionists, reformers, writers, clergymen, and other personalities of the era. The name of the subject, when available, is written on the album page near the photograph. Multiple photographers/publishers are represented in the album, most notably Brady/Anthony (New York), Willard (Philadelphia), McClees (Philadelphia), Gardner (Washington, DC), Gutekunst (Philadelphia), Gurney & Son (New York), among others.

Highlighted subjects include: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher by Gurney. -- William H. Seward by Brady. -- Mark Twain by Gurney. -- 13th New Jersey Governor William Pennington (Speaker of the House 1860-1861) by J. Gurney & Son. -- 21st NJ Governor Marcus Lawrence Ward. -- William A. Newall, 18th NJ Governor by Brady. -- Salmon P. Chase by Gardner. -- Donald Grant Mitchell. -- Reverend William Swan Plumer by Brady. -- Henry Ward Beecher. - Henry Smith Lane 13th governor of Indiana and US Senator by Brady. -- Horace Greeley by C. D. Fredricks & Co. -- Lucretia Mott by F. Gutekunst -- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson by F. Gutekunst. -- Zachariah Chandler Senator, Secretary of Interior under Grant, by E. & H. T. Anthony/ Brady. -- Judge Joseph Holt (Abraham Lincoln's Judge Advocate General) by E. & H. T. Anthony/Brady. -- Thaddeus Stevens by Brady. -- General Wm. Tecumseh Sherman by E. & H. T. Anthony. -- General US Grant by J. E. McClees. -- General George Meade by O. H. Willard's Galleries. -- General Benjamin Butler by E. & H.T. Anthony by Brady. --
General Judson Kilpatrick by C. D. Fredricks & Co. -- Edwin Stanton by Brady. -- General Quincy Adams Gillmore by E. & H.T. Anthony/Brady. -- Engraved portrait of John Brown. -- Vermont Senator Jacob Collamer. -- New Hampshire Senator John Parker Hale by Brady. -- Sculptor Harriet Hosner by Brady. -- Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales. -- General Meade and Admiral Porter, by O. H. Willard's Galleries. -- Lawyer James T. Brady by C. D. Fredricks & Co.. -- Politician and attorney Reverdy Johnson, who defended Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt, as well as Sandford of the Dred Scott case. -- Reverend William H. Milburn, blind clergyman by by J. Gurney & Son.. -- Republican Vice President Henry Wilson by Brady. -- Missouri Senator John B. Henderson, co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Brady. -- Minnesota Senator and Secretary of War from 1879 to 1881, Alexander Ramsey by Brady. -- 14th Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton by Brady. -- Connecticut Senator Lafayette Sabine Foster. -- Iowa Senator and Secretary of the Interior James Harlan. -- N.J. Senator Alexander G. Cattell. -- N.Y. Senator Roscoe Conkling. -- N.Y. Governor and General Edwin D. Morgan by Brady. -- Lyman Beecher (Harriet Beecher's Father). -- OH Representative John Bingham by Brady. -- The Hutchinson Family Singers, performers and abolitionists, by H.C. Phillips & Bro. -- Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch. -- John Van Buren, Son of Martin Van Buren by C. D. Fredricks & Co. -- Children turned out of the St. Lawrence Hotel on account of color (photo sold to benefit the education of colored people in the Gulf) by J.E McClees. -- Actress Lucille Western by C. D. Fredricks & Co. -- Actress Kate Bateman by C. D. Fredricks & Co.