Civil War Soldier
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1861-1865
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Photographs can be powerful connections to the past. Soldiers, for example often had their portraits made before going off to war so that loved ones would have a rememberance of them in the event they did not return. This decorative mat is unusual and suggests the pride the owner may have felt about his status as a fighting soldier.
label: Description
content: Ambrotypes were most popular in the mid-1850s, and, therefore, are less common than other formats for portraits of Civil War soldiers. Ambrotypes are cased collodian negatives backed by dark cloth, paper, or varnish. In this example, pink coloring has been applied to the subjects's cheeks to make the portrait feel more warm and human.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Portraits
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, Military
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Military
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Warren Fox Kaynor, Waterbury Companies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.75.17.927
label: accession number
content: 322775
label: catalog number
content: 75.17.927
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Name
content: ambrotype
label: Other Terms
content: photograph; Ambrotype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ambrotype (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 6.35 cm