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Charles Batties – Vintage Wall Art

Charles Batties, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic photograph
Charles Batties, [between 1860 and 1890]. 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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Charles Batties is identified here as a soldier of the 6th Colored Infantry Regiment, one of the Black units raised for the Union army between 1863 and 1865. After the Emancipation Proclamation, many African American men enlisted in such regiments, and their portraits were often made in small cartes de visite like this one, which were inexpensive to produce and easy to send to loved ones. The albumen print format was common from the 1860s through the 1880s, and the Library of Congress holds this example in its Gladstone collection.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1890]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1890.Albumen prints 1860-1890.Cartes de visite 1860-1890.
NotesGladstone collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4108-L. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:113.212
SubjectsBatties, Charles. United States.--Army.--Colored Infantry Regiment, 6th (1863-1865) African Americans--Employment--1860-1890. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,816 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219760

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