Seated Confederate officer in gray uniform, studio portrait – Antique Photo Print
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A window into the past: Seated Confederate officer in gray uniform, studio portrait, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Seated Confederate officer in gray uniform, studio portrait
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A seated Confederate officer in a gray uniform, posed in a studio rather than on a battlefield, makes this portrait a departure from the grim wartime scenes that fill the Gettysburg holdings. Photographers in the 1860s often set their sitters against painted backdrops with draped fabric and a balustrade, and officers frequently had their likenesses taken before leaving for the front, to send home to family. Images like this one were sold as cartes de visite or cabinet cards, so the same pose could be reproduced many times. Its value to researchers lies in showing how officers presented themselves, through uniform, posture, and props, at a moment when the war was still being fought on distant fields.
| Original scan | 1,594 × 2,205 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00682a |
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