17 x 20 3/8 in. salted paper print with hand coloring (sheet) on 23 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. heavy cardstock mount. "Anderson Art Palace, Richmond Va." inscribed in image, lower right.

Charles Minnigerode was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1839. He soon found a home in Virginia, where he served as a professor of humanities at the College of William and Mary, then became ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, and eventually took over the prominent St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond in 1856, where he would remain for 33 years. As such, he was in charge of the so-called "Cathedral of the Confederacy," which was attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.

David H. Anderson (1827-1905) was born in New York City, but traveled south and west working as a Daguerreian artist, and eventually establishing a photographic studio, Anderson's Art Palace, in Richmond, VA in around 1865. The gallery produced "every kind of Picture known to the Art of Photography," according to an 1869 advertisement in the Southern Planter. He remained in Richmond for more than a decade before returning to New York City to set up shop in Mathew Brady's old studio at 785 Broadway. He continued in photography until just weeks before his death in 1905.