[John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, with prosthetic legs] (LOC)

Bowman, W. E., 1834-1915,, photographer.

 

[John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, with prosthetic legs]

 

[Ottawa, Illinois] : [Bowman], [ca. 1890]

 

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (cabinet card format)

 

Notes:

Photograph shows identified veteran who was a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Georgia, and lost his feet from scurvy and gangrene.

Title devised by Library staff.

On verso: printed autobiography.

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)

Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

January, John W.,--1847-1906.

United States.--Army.--Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 14th (1863-1865)--People.

Veterans--Union--1880-1890.

War casualties--1880-1890.

Amputees--1880-1890.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Union.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties--Union.

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1880-1900.

Albumen prints--1880-1890.

Cabinet photographs--1880-1890.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.49798

 

Call Number: LOT 14043-2, no. 377

 

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