Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 15
Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon in front of encampment]
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865]
Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case)
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32130 (digital file from original item)
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. 2809 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Title devised by Library staff.
…..Case: Leather; scroll design.
…..Uncertain if Union or Confederate.
…..Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127).
…..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).
…..Published in: Military images. Export, Pa., May-June 2006 (XVII, 6), front cover.
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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
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