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Lieutenant Colonel Munro & officers of the 39th Regiment – Historic Print

Lieutenant Colonel Munro & officers of the 39th Regiment, [1855] — historic photograph
Lieutenant Colonel Munro & officers of the 39th Regiment, [1855]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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.)

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Lieutenant Colonel William Munro stands at the head of the officers of the 39th Regiment of Foot, the Dorsetshire regiment, in this group portrait. Roger Fenton made such images of British army units during his 1855 visit to the Crimea, when the siege of Sevastopol had dragged on for months. Fenton's work from the trip is often valued as one of the earliest large photographic records of a modern war, and it shows officers at rest rather than in combat. This print is made by the salted paper process, which gives it the soft, brownish tones typical of photographs from that period.

Created / published[1855]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 18 x 17 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesTitle transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.
SubjectsMunro, William,--Lieutenant-Colonel--Military service. Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Foot, 39th (Dorsetshire)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military officers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military life--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,732 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222469

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