[Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri] (LOC)

Long, Enoch,, 1823-1898,, photographer.

 

[Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri]

 

[between 1863 and 1865]

 

1 photograph : quarter plate tintype, hand-colored ; 16.2 x 13.6 cm. (frame)

 

Notes:

Frame: Berg 7-18.

Title devised by Library staff.

Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25.

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105)

 

Subjects:

African Americans--Military service--Missouri--Saint Louis--1860-1870.

Soldiers--Union--Missouri--Saint Louis--1860-1870.

Rifles--1860-1870.

Handguns--1860-1870.

Backdrops--1860-1870.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union--Missouri--Saint Louis.

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.

 

Rights Info: No known restriction on publication.

 

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

 

Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518

Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

 

More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj

 

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26456

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5026

 

 

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