Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 25 Title: [Private W.R. Clack of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, with saber, pistol, and small book] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.7 x 12.7 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34982 (digital file from original [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 24 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant’s uniform with militia sword and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.2 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34964 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 23 Title: [Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a young boy] Date Created/Published: [between 1850 and 1855] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) + 1 manuscript. Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier, as a child. Reproduction Number: [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 22 Title: [Roswell K. Bishop of Company I, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with holstered revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.5 cm (case) Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-27241 (digital [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 21 Title: [Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, with cut down saber and revolver] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.4 x 10.1 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34975 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 20 Title: [Unidentified artillery soldier in Confederate uniform and kepi hat] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.2 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32058 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 19 Title: [Unidentified soldier in 3rd New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers (The Butterflies) jacket with corporal’s chevrons] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 11.3 cm (frame) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-37521 (digital file from original, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-27521 (digital file from original [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 18 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate frock coat with gold trim] Creator(s): Rees, Charles R., photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.3 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-40604 (digital file from original item, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-30604 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 17 Title: [Thomas Isaiah Booker in Confederate uniform with Colt navy revolver, book, tin drum canteen, and sign reading Jeff Davis and the South!] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863] Medium: 1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.4 x 6.3 cm (case) Summary: Photo shows identified soldier from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 16 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Berdan’s Sharps rifle and Colt 1862 Police Model pistol] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.0 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33426 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 15 Title: [Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon in front of encampment] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32130 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 14 Title: [Lieutenant Hiram L. Hendley of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, in silver brooch] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; 5.0 x 3.7 cm (brooch) Summary: Portrait photograph of identified soldier set in brooch. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-33335 (digital file from [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 13 Title: [Unidentified Confederate(?) officer, full-length portrait, standing, with sword in right hand] Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-119426 (b&w film copy neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LOT 6592, no. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 12 Title: [Unidentified boy in Union zouave uniform with drum] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 15.6 x 12.5 cm (case) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-34499 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: Use digital images. [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 11 Almost 10 years ago, this tintype was the subject of a couple of involved NPR articles/podcasts on the image and identifying who the soldier in the Union Zuave uniform was. In the first, Unknown No More: Identifying A Civil War Soldier1, he is identified as Thomas A. Ardies [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 10 Title: [Confederate Colonel Alexander R. Chisolm, aide-de-camp to General P.G.T. Beauregard, in uniform] Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format) Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-58421 (digital file [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture No. 9 Joseph Ford enlisted as a private in Company G, 13th Kansas Infantry, on September 6, 1862. The 13th Kansas was organized on September 10, 1862, at Atchison, Kansas, and fought at the 1862 battles of Newtonia and Prairie Grove; the unit also preformed provost and garrison duties in [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #008 Henry Knowlton was commissioned a second lieutenant on September 5, 1862, and mustered into Company K, 33rd Missouri Infantry on September 11, 1862. On May 4, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant; promoted to captain on January 30, 1865, he was assigned to command Company D. The 33rd [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #007 John T. Hughes (July 25, 1817 — August 11, 1862) was a colonel in the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He might also have been a brigadier general at the time of his death but documentation of the appointment is lacking. Hughes returned [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #006 Title: [Major Robert Olin Peatross of Co. E, 30th Virginia Infantry Regiment and Field and Staff with sword] Related Names: Rees, Charles R. , photographer (attributed name Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865] Medium: 2 photographs in 1 case : ninth-plate ambrotype and sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 8 x [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #005 Title [Jesse Sharpe Barnes, later captain of Co. F, 4th North Carolina Infantry, in South Carolina militia uniform with sword and pistols] Summary Photograph shows identified soldier, Jesse S. Barnes, a Confederate captain who was killed on May 31, 1862, at Seven Pines, Virginia. Captain Barnes probably fought in [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #004 Title: [Five enlistees from Co. K, 11th Ohio Infantry Regiment, one in uniform and three in hickory shirts, at Camp Dennison, three with bayoneted rifles] Date Created/Published: [United States], [May 1861] Medium: 1 photograph : ambrotype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 92 x 80 [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture no. 3 Sold at auction June 2015 for $6,875. Heritage Auctions description: “Confederate Soldier Quarter Plate Tintype. Stunning 1861 Melainotype of a Confederate officer. Really, for quality, condition and content one of the finest Confederate images we’ve ever offered. Plate with embossed Melainotype patent information embossed along bottom edge, unquestionably [...]

Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #002 Half-plate ambrotype of Confederate officer Captain William F. McRorie of Co. A, 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Richmond, Virginia.—C. R. Rees & Co. Cased images by Rees included in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress show a studio setting identical to this [...]