Seated portrait of a young light skinned man wearing a Union Army jacket, holding his hat on his lap. He has wavy hair, brushed up from his forehead, and is gazing to the left of the camera. His cheeks and some buttons have been delicately hand colored in pink and blue respectively.
Notes:
Sixth plate cased ambrotype with hand-coloring. One of a series of cased objects in the Loewentheil collection. The hand colored series contains a number of portraits from the Civil War.
Cite As:
Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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