[Unidentified sailor in Union uniform with an American flag-draped table in front of painted backdrop showing a water scene] (LOC)

    [Unidentified sailor in Union uniform with an American flag-draped table in front of painted backdrop showing a water scene]

    [between 1861 and 1865]

    1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.6 x 8.2 cm (case)

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff.
    Case: Berg, no. 1-99.
    Photograph shows a monitor class ship in the background.
    Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

    Subjects:
     United States.--Navy--People--1860-1870.
    Sailors--Union--1860-1870.
    Military uniforms--Union--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.26870

    Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2019

    Comments and faves

    1. swanq (24 months ago | reply)

      Another portrait has what looks like the same backdrop:
      [Unidentified young sailor in Union uniform in front of painted backdrop showing waterfront with Monitor class warship] (LOC)

    2. Ghilayne (24 months ago | reply)

      The vessel in the background looks like an ironclad. That could help in dating the photo more precisely if it is.

      The photo is from the U. S. Naval Historical Center. It's a line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.

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    4. Martyn William (24 months ago | reply)

      Totally fascinating !

    5. This photo was invited and added to the Veterans of the American Civil War group.

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    7. jpshaw4 (23 months ago | reply)

      Doesn't look like this guy

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    9. This photo was invited and added to the Civil War Page group.

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