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Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs, prints, and ephemera from the Gladstone collection

About this Item

Title

  • Photographs, prints, and ephemera from the Gladstone collection

Summary

  • Photographs and other visual materials related to African Americans in the military. Many show Buffalo soldiers and World War I service men from the 803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion. The Civil War is represented primarily through views of slaves, plantations and Union troops in South Carolina taken by Henry Moore about 1862. Other civil war related images include two portraits of freed slave children, and 12 patriotic envelopes. World War I ephemera include a military service certificate and a sheet music cover depicting African American soldiers. This group also has an embroidered 3rd Army combat service identification badge from 1945.

Names

  • Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer

Created / Published

  • ca. 1860-1945, bulk 1862-1919.

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Military service--1860-1950
  • -  Plantations--South Carolina--1860-1870
  • -  Slaves--South Carolina--1860-1870
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--South Carolina
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union

Headings

  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890.
  • Ephemera--1860-1950.
  • Group portraits--1860-1950.
  • Patriotic envelopes--1860-1870.
  • Photographic prints--1860-1950.
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1950.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1860-1950
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890
  • Patriotic envelopes--1860-1870
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1950
  • Group portraits--1860-1950
  • Ephemera--1860-1950

Notes

  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Includes images by various identified and unidentified photographers.
  • -  Specific formats in order of prominence include: photographic prints, cabinet photographs, patriotic envelopes, stereographs, postcards, printed certificate, sheet music cover, 3rd Army patch.
  • -  Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113)
  • -  General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld

Medium

  • 104 items (chiefly photographic prints) ; 51 x 41 cm or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14024 (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Gladstone, William A. Gladstone collection of African American photographs

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010645103

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For further information see "Gladstone collection...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.htlm
  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 14024 (H) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see, https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html

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Chicago citation style:

Moore, Henry P, photographer. Photographs, prints, and ephemera from the Gladstone collection. South Carolina United States, ca. 1860. to 1945, Bulk 1862 to 1919. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010645103/.

APA citation style:

Moore, H. P., photographer. (ca. 1860) Photographs, prints, and ephemera from the Gladstone collection. South Carolina United States, ca. 1860. to 1945, Bulk 1862 to 1919. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010645103/.

MLA citation style:

Moore, Henry P, photographer. Photographs, prints, and ephemera from the Gladstone collection. to 1945, Bulk 1862 to 1919. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2010645103/>.