The Zouave Cadets of Chicago – Vintage 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 antique engraving of The Zouave Cadets of Chicago brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Zouave Cadets of Chicago
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Drilling in the loose trousers, short jackets, and fez-style caps of the French Zouave regiments from North Africa, the Zouave Cadets of Chicago show how far that fashion had traveled by 1860. Elmer Ellsworth's Zouave drill team, which toured the Northern states that year, had set off a craze for these companies, and militia units like this one adopted the dress for their showy exercises. The wood engraving ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on July 28, 1860, a reminder of how common such drill companies were in the years before the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1860 July 28. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: C.W.--Troops--Zouaves; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 995 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130627 |
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