Case with four tintypes
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: The frames and cases in which portraits made during the Civil War were set served not just to protect those images but to preserve couples and families as a symbolic unit when their members were far apart. The four photographs shown here were produced separately, but placing those portraits together, with links between the frames, kept those family members united in spirit, if not in reality.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Civil War
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.75.17.107
label: catalog number
content: 75.17.107
label: accession number
content: 322775
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (photographs material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (frame glass material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (frames material)
label: Measurements
content: open: 7 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 19/32 in; 19.05 cm x 15.875 cm x 1.524 cm
label: Measurements
content: closed: 3 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 1 in; 9.525 cm x 15.875 cm x 2.54 cm