Camp Lincoln, 1897 – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Camp Lincoln, 1897, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Camp Lincoln, 1897
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The title, *Camp Lincoln*, places this 1897 cabinet card at a specific military camp, and the record ties the sitters to African American military service. Cabinet cards like this were a common studio format in the 1890s, often exchanged with family or kept in albums. The decade was also when Black units such as the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry served in the regular army, many of them at frontier posts in the West. Gelatin silver prints were the standard for commercial portraits of the time, so the uniforms and poses show how these soldiers chose to present themselves at the close of the century.
| Created / published | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Cabinet photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Gladstone collection (Library of Congress) Exhibit loan 4108-L. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:113.241 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Military service--1890-1900. Military personnel--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,802 × 4,765 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219763 |
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