1860/07
Photograph
Title: National Guard camp. Four men near a tent. With Maltese cross emblem on tent
No identification. Handwritten on back: "S.M. Mitchell, M.D., L. Johnson, J. W. Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa. July 1860, Camp of the National Guard." One man lies on a make-shift bed just inside a tent. Another man sits beside him, another leans against the bed and a fourth stand off to the dies. All the men are wearing different uniform pants (i.e. different stripping) and the man on the far right of the image is wearing white pants. A large maltese cross is on the tent. On a plain, cream colored mount.
GLC05137.246