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Quarter plate tintype with some hand-tinting. Housed in full pressed paper case with floral motif.
A beautiful and sensitive family portrait with a soldier in uniform. He wears his shell jacket and McDowell-style forage cap while holding his youngest daughter, whose dress has been tinted pink. The soldier's wife, wearing a delicately patterned dress, sits next to him and holds a cased image portrait- likely from an absent family member. The oldest daughter, with short hair and a necklace, stands behind her parents.
This portrait appears to have been taken by a field photographer- the edge of the plain backdrop visible on the right edge.
The soldier’s face bears a distinct melancholy, suggestive of the burden of leaving for or returning to the front.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Cased Images, Tintypes]
A beautiful and sensitive family portrait with a soldier in uniform. He wears his shell jacket and McDowell-style forage cap while holding his youngest daughter, whose dress has been tinted pink. The soldier's wife, wearing a delicately patterned dress, sits next to him and holds a cased image portrait- likely from an absent family member. The oldest daughter, with short hair and a necklace, stands behind her parents.
This portrait appears to have been taken by a field photographer- the edge of the plain backdrop visible on the right edge.
The soldier’s face bears a distinct melancholy, suggestive of the burden of leaving for or returning to the front.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Cased Images, Tintypes]
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[CIVIL WAR] Soldier & Family
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DAY 2, Civil War & African American History
Columbus, OH, USA
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