71 CDVs, most approx. 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 in., or smaller, on cardstock mounts (condition ranges from good to very good, with toning, some soiling/spotting; edge and corner wear to mounts, many mounts trimmed). Most versos with ink stamp of "Henry Y. Porter."

Highlighted subjects include: 

Gen. Tom Thumb, Wife, and Child. Boston, Joseph Ward. -- George Peabody (2), one credited to Mayall, London, one credited to Williams & Everett, Boston, MA. -- Cyrus W. Field (2), one credited to Sarony, New York, one uncredited. -- Peter Cooper. New York: Howell. -- Edward Everett Hale. Boston, MA: Warren. -- Walt Whitman (2), one credited to Brady, Washington, DC, one uncredited. -- Henry W. Longfellow (7), two by Warren,  one by Tilton & Co., two by Black, all of Boston, MA, one uncredited. -- Frances A. Longfellow. Boston, MA: Silsbee, Case & Co. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (3), one by Black, one by Warren, both of Boston, MA, one uncredited. -- William C. Bryant (3), one credited to Mora, two credited to Sarony, both of New York. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt (2). New York: Howell. -- Charles Dickens. New York: Anthony. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (5), one by E. Cox Walker, Liverpool, three by Warren, Boston, MA, one by Anthony, New York. -- Bret Harte. New York: Gurney. -- Park Godwin, uncredited. -- Henry Thoreau. Boston, MA: Warren. -- John Whittier. Boston, MA: Warren. -- James G. Bennett, uncredited. -- Edmund Yates, uncredited. -- Horace Mann. Boston, MA: J.W. Black, 2-cent revenue stamp on verso. -- Studio view of William C. Bryant and Peter Cooper seated together. New York: Sarony. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes (6), one by Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston, MA, two by J.W. Black, Boston, MA and Newport, RI, and three uncredited. -- John W. Francis. New York: Brady, Anthony. -- James Fisk, Jr., uncredited. -- Amos Lawrence, uncredited. -- Wendell Phillips (3), two credited to Warren, one credited to Black, both of Boston, MA. -- Henry W. Shaw, "Josh Billings" (2), one credited to Gurney & Son, New York, one uncredited. -- J. Lathrop Motley (2), one by Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston, MA, one uncredited. -- Joshua Bates. Boston, MA: Black & Case. -- Harriet Hosmer (2), one credited to Gurney, New York, one credited to Black & Case, Boston, MA. -- George Bancroft. New York: Gurney & Son. -- Petroleum Nasty (3), one credited to Sarony, NY, one trimmed but likely by Sarony, NY, and one by Hurd, Providence, RI. -- Thomas Nast, uncredited (print and mount trimmed, loss to lower right edge of print). -- Rembrandt Peale. New York: Brady. -- Composite image of two buildings, pencil identified on verso as Howard Mission, 40 New Bowery, New York. New York: Rookwood. 

Presidents include: Abraham Lincoln, uncredited. -- Abraham Lincoln and George Washington embracing, uncredited. -- Ulysses S. Grant (2), including family scene, each uncredited. -- Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Hayes. New York: Mora.

Together, 71 CDVs.