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English: Long, Enoch,, 1823-1898,, photographer.

[Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri]
[between 1863 and 1865]
1 photograph : quarter plate tintype, hand-colored ; 16.2 x 13.6 cm. (frame)
Notes:
 Frame: Berg 7-18.
Title devised by Library staff.
Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105)
Subjects:
 African Americans--Military service--Missouri--Saint Louis--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--Missouri--Saint Louis--1860-1870.
Rifles--1860-1870.
Handguns--1860-1870.
Backdrops--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union--Missouri--Saint Louis.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restriction on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Persistent URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26456

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5026
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