Portrait of New York Zouaves – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This historic photograph of Portrait of New York Zouaves brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Portrait of New York Zouaves
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Dressed in loose trousers, short jackets, and tasseled caps copied from French colonial infantry in North Africa, these men display the Zouave style that swept American militia companies in 1860. The image is a Library of Congress copy, made in 1961, of an original tintype, and the record credits James F. Gibson, born in 1828, as the photographer. Portraits like this predate the war, when the flashy uniforms signaled drill-field pride more than battle experience. Within a year, many such companies had been called into Union service, and the Zouave look had become one of the most recognizable images of early 1861.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of a tintype. Credit: Mr. G.K. Holmes Cornwall Bridge Conn. American Memory edition timeline. No. 1104 Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,128 × 1,312 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52185 |
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