1860s TWIN BROTHERS Civil War Photographers L V Newell Studio Antique CDV PHOTO

Description: Some info found online about this photographer….. About the PhotographerLafayette V. Newell (April 12, 1833 – April 8, 1914) was born with his twin brother Albert, in Belknap County, Barnstead, New Hampshire, to William Newell and Olive Dennett. A farm boy from Barnstead, NH with 12 siblings, Newell studied the new craft of photography in the 1850’s. Lafayette V. Newell took his share of studio images, he also carried his heavy wooden camera, tripod, and fragile glass plates into the field.He honed his craft during the Civil War by taking pictures of Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout in Maryland. He returned from the war with hundreds of irreplaceable glass negatives. Newell married a grocer’s daughter from Portsmouth and stored his rare photographic archive on the top floor of the grocery shop on Bow Street. Tragically, local vandals destroyed all of the images.At age 35, Newell started a photography business in Portsmouth. Lafayette Newell’s studio was formerly at the corner of Fleet and Congress streets in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.For the next three decades, with a distinctively artistic eye for lighting and design, he captured scenes of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. Some of our most valuable images of local architecture are credited to Newell and his competitors, the Davis Brothers.After Lafayette died April 8, 1914 in Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, Lafayette’s son, John Newell, inherited his father’s photographs. The collection found its way into the hands of Portsmouth bordello keeper and antique collector “Cappy” Stewart. Garland Patch, a welder at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, later added Newell’s Portsmouth negatives to his own collection. Patch eventually sold them to Strawbery Banke Museum, where they are preserved today. Some of the most provocative views of the city in its Victorian era come from Newell’s later work. Hundreds of souls lost in minutes New Hampshire photographer L. V. Newell captured hundreds of Civil War soldiers on glass --Confederate and Union. But the priceless glass negatives were destroyed.NEWELL TWINSLafayette V. NewellPHOTOGRAPHERAlbert NewellFirst image above is a self-portrait. Lafayette V. Newell with his twin brother Albert Newell It ranks among the saddest days in Portsmouth history -- yet few know the tragic tale. In moments hundreds of souls were lost, smashed to glittering bits, in an attic on the corner of Bow and Penhallow streets soon after the Civil War. For photographer Lafayette V. Newell, it was thedarkest of all his days. Newell discovered his shattered glass plate negatives sometime after 1866. His prized collection of historic portraits filled two heavy wooden trunks. Both had been opened, the locks snapped,the irreplaceable contents broken and scattered. Newell had transported the fragile collection from his photographic studio at Point Lookout, Maryland. There, through much of the Civil War, he ran a business making portraits of the Union soldiers guarding the 25,000 Confederate prisoners interned there. Newell also photographed the prisoners of war, particularly officers and those who could afford a picture tosend to worried families back home in the South. It was a collection that modern scholars might die for. Point Lookout remains a key location to the descendants of soldiers imprisoned there. Hundreds died and their memory still rouses Southern anger over "Lincoln's war". To these families, especially, the vandalism in Newell'sNew Hampshire attic weighs heavily. We can safely assume that the fastidious owner's glass negatives were neatly organized and labeled, the chemical emulsion protected from the sun. Photographer Thom Hindle of Dover, whose collection today includes over 100,000-glass plate negatives knows how difficult they are to preserve and use. These negatives, Hindle says, became so common and were so outmoded by the turn of the 20*century, that photographers were selling the glass as scrap. Victorian plateshave been used as window panes in greenhouses.Hindle notes that the chemistry of Newell's early "wet plate" process was especially delicate too. Negatives were large, 7 by 9 inches, designed to be printed on heavy paper "carte de visites" (cdv) and sold in quantity. The back of one of Newell's Portsmouth cards specifically notes that he preserved his negatives for reprinting. Other Civil War photographers used an earlier method of printing one-shot ambrotypes on paper or tintypes and ferrotypes on metal, methods that did not allowduplication. By the Civil War photography was truly evolving into a high-tech business, and a lucrative one for Newell, it appears. Unlike famous battlefield photographer Matthew Brady, Newell worked at a safe distance from the war. He was invited to set up shop thanks to his twin brother Albert, a member of the 12th New Hampshire Volunteers, one of three regiments assigned prison duty atPoint Lookout. Lafayette Newell, a farm boy who had trained as a photographer in Concord, NH in the mid- 1850s, brought his equipment and supplies, and enough lumber to construct a studio. Just seven days after his arrival, Newell completed a 25 by 12-foot shop and had a "captive" audience tophotograph for the next three years. But all that work was destroyed. Newell's family suspected it was the work of local boys who found their way into the top floor of the family grocery. Born in Barnstead, N.H., one of 13 children, L. V. Newell married Annie Rider in 1857. Her father owned the grocery store downstairs on Bow Street where Newell often worked. The couple apparently met in 1857 when Newell came to Portsmouth from Concord where he had trained in the photographic arts and kept a shop for a few months before moving to the Seacoast. Mostly, at this time, he made his living as a handwriting teacher. His script was so finely detailed, according to one report that itlooked like a copper engraving. At age 35, despite the loss of his historic collection - or maybe because of the tragedy - Newell started over. For the next three decades, with a distinctively artistic eye for lighting and design, he captured scenes of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. His son John Newell inherited thatcollection, which passed to Portsmouth bordello keeper and antiques collector "Cappy" Stewart. Garland Patch, a welder at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, added Newell's Portsmouth negatives to his collection and eventually sold them to Strawbery Banke Museum, where they are preserved today. Some of the most provocative views of the city in its Victorian era come from Newell's later work. While Newell's Civil War negatives are gone, some of that work survives, scattered throughattics, in family scrapbooks, at flea markets, in museums and private collections. Albert Martin NewellTwin brother of the photographer Lafayette V. Newell Newell, Albert M. 12th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, Co. B; born in Barnstead, N.H.; age 28; resident of Barnstead, credited to Gilmanton; enlisted Aug. 16, '62; mustered in Aug. 30, '62, as Priv.;mustered out June 21, '65. P. O. ad., Gilmanton, N.H. William H. Newell married Olive Dennett and had by her thirteen children, four of whom fought for the Union, viz., William J., of the Fifth New Hampshire, Albert M. and Arthur C., of theTwelfth, and Samuel Andrew, who served in a western regiment (21st Wisconsin Infantry.) William J. and the subject of this sketch were both twin children, though of different ages byseveral years. Albert M. Newell married to Amelia J. Fisk in 1854, and their children are Albert, Frank, and John P. In Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Wapping Heights battles but never wounded. At thebateif tettsburg when the tine turned, and it was his turn to one fish, he thied lines. "They were all found on dangerous shoals, and quite willing to be taken." He was selected as cook at regimental headquarters at Point Lookout, and acted as such and company cook to the end of the war. While carrying rations to the men while in front ofPetersburg he came very near being killed by a rebel sharpshooter. His twin brother, Lafayette, was a photographer at Point Lookout, Md., for some months while the regiment was encamped there, and many pictures that appear in this history are engravedfrom photo-copies of the living original as taken by him at time and place. William Jackson Newell, 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, Band; born in Barnstead, N.H.; age 33; resident of Northwood; enlisted Oct. 7, '61; mustered in Oct. 28, '61, as 1st Class Musician; mustered out Aug. 8, '62, Harrison's Landing, Va. P. O. address, Phillip's Station,Neb. He was a retired musician and played in the band for the 5th NH Volunteers and was dischargedprior to the Civil War registration. In 1885 he and his wife were in Hamilton, Nebraska. He was working as a photographer until after 1900. He died from eating oysters when he gotfood poisoning. He was a brother of photographer Lafayette V. Newell of Portsmouth, N.H. Please check my other auctions for more vintage photos.Use posted auction images to determine condition.In most cases, the actual original photos are much clearer than the posted images. =========If you have any questions, feel free to email me and I will do my best to answer.

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