Portrait of a Family
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: The excitement of having one's portrait taken and the desire to share portraits with friends and family acquired new meaning and urgency with the onset of the Civil War. The pride many men in uniform felt when they visited a photographer's studio mingled with the somber thought that the photograph might be the last image their loved ones would have to remember them by. Soldiers also held portraits of their loved ones close when they headed off for battle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Shippensburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
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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: 1985.0736.41.07
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0736.41.07
label: accession number
content: 1985.0736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carte-de-visite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 13/32 in; 10.16 cm x 6.096 cm