Tintype portrait of soldier before painted camp background
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05131.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861 ca. Pagination: 2 photographs Order a Copy
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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