[Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat] (LOC)
[Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat]
[between 1861 and 1870]
1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 2-61.
Photo shows a girl holding a framed image of her father. Judging from
her necklace, mourning ribbons, and dress, it is likely that her
father was killed in the war. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth
T. Lewin, 2010)
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Purchased from: Rick Brown, Civil War Show, Chantilly, Virginia, 2007
Published in: Military images, vol. XII, no. 3 (November-December
1990), front cover.
Subjects:
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
Girls--1860-1870.
Families--1860-1870.
Mourning clothing & dress--1860-1870.
Photographs--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--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.26863
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2012
Comments and faves
maru teru, gracefullady, Billy-Fish, heatherradish, and 59 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Purple Palindrome (26 months ago | reply)
How can you tell she's in mourning?
neshachan (26 months ago | reply)
What a beautiful image.
Martyn William (26 months ago | reply)
Fabulous and beautiful !
Imajilon (26 months ago | reply)
@ Purple Palindrome- From the description:
"Judging from her necklace, mourning ribbons, and dress, it is likely that her father was killed in the war"
JJM Photography (26 months ago | reply)
Striking and moving image...
This photo was invited and added to the Veterans of the American Civil War group.
gcordell (21 months ago | reply)
I am intrigued by her necklace - does anybody know more about this type of jewelry? Is it technically a "mourning necklace," or is she simply wearing her best jewelry because because she's in mourning? Are they lockets, and are they hanging from ribbon or beads?
muthabord (21 months ago | reply)
ellynkocher (10 months ago | reply)
i don't specifically know that it's called, gcordell, but mourning jewelry was a very big trend in the early victorian era. usually lockets with hair, but also rings and other trinkets, often quite maudlin or dark.
trialsanderrors (4 months ago | reply)
The image with the mat removed: