Portraits of a group of unidentified Federal soldiers – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Portraits of a group of unidentified Federal soldiers, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Portraits of a group of unidentified Federal soldiers
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Eight separate portraits of unidentified Federal soldiers share this print, each marked with a letter from a through h, read left to right and top to bottom. The Library of Congress made the copies in 1961 from cartes de visite, the small card portraits that were popular in the 1860s and often traded as keepsakes or sent home to family. The record gives 1860 as the date, which sits uneasily with the Civil War subject, so that date is worth checking against the sitters' uniforms and the period of the conflict.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Each portrait has been separately reproduced in the American Memory digital version. The suffixes a through h have been assigned from left to right top to bottom. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of cartes de visite in collection of John Rawls Vienna Va. American Memory edition timeline. No. 1062 Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Taylor & Huntington publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Soldiers--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,744 × 1,314 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46408 |
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