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 original item)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling.
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2630 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Title devised by Library staff.
…..Case: (front) gem scroll; (back) Rinhart, no. 157.
…..Inscription behind photo: Prizeth with my most highly Treasured. Given to me by my Darling Beo [i.e. Beau] Bobbie. Died Oct. 5th 1862. Sept. 28th ’63. (Signed with illegible initials.)
…..Possible identification is Robert T. Willis of Company I, 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, based on research by Nancy Dearing Rossbacher.
…..Additional information in collections file; includes transcription of note behind image.
…..Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
…..More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
…..Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
…..Exhibited: “The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection” at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
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Mike’s notes:
Image restoration 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 matter
– straighten image
Image restoration is the process of using digital restoration tools to create new digital versions of the images while also improving their quality and repairing damage.