Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 23
Title: [Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a young boy]
Date Created/Published: [between 1850 and 1855]
Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) + 1 manuscript.
Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier, as a child.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27242 (digital file from original item, photo) LC-DIG-ppmsca-27243 (digital file from original item, note)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling.
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2380 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
….Title devised by Library staff.
….Case: Leather geometric scroll and flowers.
….Name from inscription on handwritten note in case; additional information on note includes date of birth, March 1844, date and place of death, May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Virginia, and name of sister, Georgeanna Hunt.
….Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O’Donnell.
….Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
….More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
….Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
….Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
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Mike’s notes:
Image restoration note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject matter
– straighten image
Image restoration is the process of using digital restoration tools to create new digital versions of the images while also improving their quality and repairing damage.