Tintype portrait of soldier before painted camp background

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GLC05131.01
GLC#
GLC05131.01-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1861
Title
Tintype portrait of soldier before painted camp background
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
2 photographs
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Full length view of a soldier in front of painted camp background (tents, flags etc.). The soldier wears a gun in his belt. An American flag, the soldier's pants and other items in the photo have been colored with pencil or dry pigment while the buttons on the soldier's uniform have been painted gold. Housed with albumen print of an unidentified woman in a black dress underneath.

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