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[Unidentified soldier in first lieutenant's uniform, red sash, leather gauntlets, and spurs with cavalry sword] (LOC)

[Unidentified soldier in first lieutenant's uniform, red sash, leather gauntlets, and spurs with cavalry sword]

 

[between 1861 and 1865]

 

1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 10.7 x 9.3 cm (case)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Case: leather geometric design with fleurs-de-lis.

Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see: (www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html)

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

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

Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

 

Subjects:

Soldiers--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--1860-1870.

Daggers & swords--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

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.40998

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2645

 

 

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Uploaded on June 28, 2013
Taken circa 1861