Showing posts with label ambrotype portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ambrotype portrait. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Ambrotype Portrait of 98-Year-Old Milly Perkins Who Lived in Bethany, Connecticut (1850's/1860's)


Ambrotype portrait of 98-year-old Milly Perkins who lived in Bethany, Connecticut, c. 1850's/1860's. From the book Bethany And Its Hills by Eliza Jennette Lines published in 1905.

Friday, August 26, 2016

Ambrotype Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Danville, Illinois (1857)


Ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Danville, Illinois, May 1857. By Amon T. Joslin. Image from the book Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Hand-Colored Ambrotype Portrait of Union Soldier Seneca Flint Who Served With the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry During the Civil War


Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Union soldier Seneca Flint who served with the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. He died of disease in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 25, 1864.

Source.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Hand-Colored Ambrotype Portrait of Confederate Officers Colonel Robert D. Lilley and Major James Templeton (1861)


Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Confederate officers Colonel Robert D. Lilley (left) and Major James Templeton, c. 1861. Lilley served with the Lee Rifles, a militia unit which became Company C of the 25th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and was later promoted to Brigadier General during the war. Templeton served as a surgeon in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Source.