[Sergeant Robert Black and Private Herman Beckman of Company F, 8th Veteran Reserve Corps in VRC regulation sky blue uniforms] (LOC)

    [Sergeant Robert Black and Private Herman Beckman of Company F, 8th Veteran Reserve Corps in VRC regulation sky blue uniforms]

    [between 1861 and 1865]

    1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 8.3 x 7 cm. (plate)

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff.
    Names written above each soldier.
    Additional information in collections file.
    Not in case.
    Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

    Subjects:
     United States.--Army.--Veteran Reserve Corps.--Regiment, 8th--People.
    Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
    Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.

    Format: Group portraits--1860-1870.
    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.27332

    Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2469

    Comments and faves

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

    2. swanq (25 months ago | reply)

      See
      www.racw.org/invalids.html
      for information on the Veterans Reserve Corps.

      Since VRC was formed in 1863, this was presumably taken in 1863 or later.

      I wonder what the unbuttoning of the jacket symbolizes. It seems deliberate, given that both soldiers have used one button at the top and three at the bottom and left the others unbuttoned.

    3. Lady AnneJT (21 months ago | reply)

      I've noticed that a lot of the soldiers have the middle buttons undone. Fashion of the day, perhaps?

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

    5. ★

      loud librarian, hereonearth, and Photo Nut 2011 added this photo to their favorites.

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