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against Grier’s participation in the Sugar Bowl are well documented elsewhere, in this oral history Grier focuses on the positive.
He discusses the scrapbook he keeps full of letters received from supporters and says he wasn’t fazed by the politics. He just wanted to play football and do his best.
Bobby Grier’s interview and many other oral histories are available to the public at the Williams Research Center. —REBECCA SMITH
George Eustis Carte-de-Visite Album
2014.0308
This album of 189 cartes de visite and one snapshot contains portraits of the family, friends, and associates of George Eustis Jr. (1828-1872), a New Orleans-born dignitary who served as secretary to John Slidell (1793-1871), a jurist, legislator, and diplomat sent to France to garner support for the Confederacy. Eustis, Slidell, and another envoy, James M. Mason (1798-1871), were captured by the US navy in the November 1861 Trent Affair, so named for the British ship they were aboard en route to England and France. The men were imprisoned at Fort Warren, in Boston, until their release at the end of 1861. Eustis emigrated permanently to France after the Civil War, living in Paris with his wife, Louise Corcoran, and their three children.
The carte-de-visite album presents a visual connection between the Louisiana Confederates in France and their Parisian demimonde. The inscription on the album, made by a French manufacturer, indicates that assembly began in 1861. Certain photographs, including one of Judah P. Benjamin in his British attorney’s robes and wig, could only have been made later
in the decade. Other interesting subjcc-:-include Louise and Pierre Rost, owners <»t Destrehan Plantation in St. Charles Pari?1, John Slidell and his wife, Mathilde; Louts-Napoleon Bonaparte, or Napoleon III, and his wife, Eugenie de Montijo; Confederate general Thomas Johnson “Stonewall” Jackson; and Jefferson Davis. Only a fin of the dozens of photographs are umdontif-^-.'
The carte de visite—a photographic calling card, also called a CDV—was popularized in France beginning in 185-1. The format took off in the US in 1859 ana was in widespread use throughout the Ci*:_ War. Cartes de visite were made possible in part through technical advancement' in photography, including cameras with multiple lenses and the availability of albumen printing paper, which could reproduce fine details of a portrait even in small sizes. —JOHN H. LAWRENCE AND MOLLY REID
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