[Private Silas A. Shirley of Co. H, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, with books and sign reading Victory or Death!] (LOC)

[Private Silas A. Shirley of Co. H, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, with books and sign reading Victory or Death!]

 

[between 1861 and 1864]

 

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

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Case: Leather; central oval and scroll design.

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)

Photo shows identified soldier.

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2013; (D066)

Purchased from: Matthew Fleming, Milan, Ohio, 2012.

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

Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Shirley, Silas A.,--approximately 1840-1864.

Confederate States of America.--Army.--Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 16th--People--1860-1870.

Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870.

Signs (Notices)--1860-1870.

Books--1860-1870.

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

 

Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Ambrotypes--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.34986

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 3077

 

 

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