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 mm + 1 manuscript fragment.
Summary: Photograph shows soldiers who enlisted Greenville, Ohio, identified as (left to right) Lieutenant Wesley Gorsuch, Private Francis M. Eidson, unidentified soldier, Brigadier General Joseph Washington Frizell, and Doctor Squire Dickey, a surgeon candidate who did not muster.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-55740 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
….Title devised by Library staff.
….Date and soldiers’ identifications from: “Through The Camera’s Eye: Part One, Ohio Soldiers 1861,” by Larry M. Strayer and Brad L. Pruden. Military Images, volume XXVII, number 1, July/August 2005, page 6.
….Text on manuscript fragment: “Left, Capt. Gorsuch, Colonel Frazell, 3rd unknown, 4th Frank Eidson, private Squire Dickey, surgeon. Company from Greenville, Ohio.”
….Case: Berg, no. 4-17G.
….Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D073)
….More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
….Purchased from: Larry M. Strayer, June 2017.
….Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
….Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress file permalink
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Mike’s notes:
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject
Before retouching:
