"Major Allen." (This is the old man Allen Pinkerton, Chief of the Secret Service)

Title:: "Major Allen." (This is the old man Allen Pinkerton, Chief of the Secret Service)
Title (alt.):: Antietam, Md. September 1862. Allan Pinkerton ("E. J. Allen") of the Secret Service on horseback
Photographer:: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Date:: September 1862
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Albumen prints
Portrait photographs
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: American Civil War 20th Massachusetts Regiment
Series:: War Memories: The War for the Union, 1861-1865
Subjects:: Spies
Detectives
Horses
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884
Places:: Maryland > Washington (county) > Sharpsburg > Antietam National Battlefield Site (historic site)
Extent:: 1 photograph : albumen print ; sheet 18 x 23 cm
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Notes:: Title from "War Memories" catalog.
Alternative title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
"War Memories" catalog number: 7468
Milhollen and Mugridge number: 140
Notes (date):: Date from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Notes (citation):: "War memories, the war for the Union 1861-1865 : catalogue of original photographic war views : photographic history of the war for the Union." Taylor & Huntington, 1890, Hartford, Conn.
Milhollen, Hirst D. and Mugridge, Donald H. "Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 : a catalog of copy negatives made from originals selected from the Mathew B. Brady Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress." Library of Congress, 1961, Washington.
Identifier:: 23_05_000086
Cab 14.13.2 no. 7468 (no longer used)