[Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber in front of painted backdrop showing landscape] (LOC)

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber in front of painted backdrop showing landscape]

 

[between 1863 and 1865]

 

1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (frame)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Case: Berg, no. 7-51.

Additional information in collections file.

Photograph shows sergeant's chevrons painted on the sleeves.

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

Purchased from: Tim Kernan: Collector of Civil War Images, Fort Loudon, Pa., 2007.

 

Subjects:

African Americans--Military service--1860-1870.

Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.

Daggers & swords--1860-1870.

Backdrops--1860-1870.

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

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

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

 

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: 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.27027

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2172

 

 

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