[Unidentified soldier in Union shell jacket with shoulder scales and kepi hat] (LOC)
[Unidentified soldier in Union shell jacket with shoulder scales and kepi hat]
[between 1861 and 1865]
1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.0 x 10.7 cm (case)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 7-87.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Subjects:
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military
personnel--Union.
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
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.27208
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2355
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Comments and faves
This photo was invited and added to the Veterans of the American Civil War group.
Fred Hall (25 months ago | reply)
If those are shoulder scales then perhaps this is a cavarly soldiers.
dunniway added this photo to their favorites. (25 months ago)
corecampaigner (23 months ago | reply)
mein got! Early war it was common to find scales on ALL branches. The "purpose" was to help keep a sword or saber from coming down on the shoulders. It was even more common to find them in a "dress uniform" environment. Not commom in the field at all.
Wils Vintage collection added this photo to his favorites. (22 months ago)