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• Collection: Civil War
• Collection: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

• Title: [Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters]
• Date Created/Published: [between 1863 and 1865]
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype ; 13.9 x 16.4 cm (frame)
• Summary: Photograph showing soldier in uniform, wife in dress and hat, and two daughters wearing matching coats and hats. In May 1863, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton issued General Order No. 143 creating the Bureau of U. S. Colored Troops. This image was found in Cecil County, Maryland, making it likely that this soldier belonged to one of the seven U.S.C.T. regiments raised in Maryland. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-36454 (digital file from original item, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-26454 (digital file from original item)
• Rights Advisory: No known restriction on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served by appointment only because material requires special handling. For more information see: (http:\\www.loc.gov\rr\print\info\617_apptonly.html)
• Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5001 [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit "Collecting Memories": Most Civil War-era photographers worked in hometown studios or as itinerant photographers in or near military camps. The images they created, including portraits of soldiers, provide a lasting reminder of the those who served. Since 2010, the Liljenquist family has donated a photographic treasure trove of these pictures now comprising more than 2,500 portraits that reveal the faces of those on the front lines and their family members from both the Union and Confederacy.
  • Frame: Berg 7-22.
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Additional information in collections file.
  • Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell.
  • Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105)
  • More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
  • Purchased from: Ross J. Kelbaugh: 19th and 20th Century Photographs & Militaria, Baltimore, Md., 2008.
  • Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
  • Published in: The Joy of Looking: Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2023.
  • Published in: Kelbuagh, Ross J. The Civil War in Maryland: Rare photographs from the collections of the Maryland Historical Society and its members. Baltimore, Md.: Toomey Press, 2006, p. 36.
  • Published in: Woodhead, Henry. Echoes of Glory. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1991, p. 13.
  • Published in: "African Americans" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
  • Published in: Owens, David. Blast From the Past!!! Mount Vernon Signal, Sept. 20, 2012, p. B8 (Unsubstantiated identification: The sitters in the photograph are identified as Sergeant Samuel Smith of Co. D, 119th United States Colored Troops, wife Mollie, and daughters Mary and Maggie in the article, but no sources used to make the identification were included in the article. There is no evidence to prove that the photograph depicts Sergeant Smith and his family.)
  • Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
  • Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.
  • Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 2024 - December 2025.
  • pp/liljwoch
  • pp/liljunion
• Subjects:
  • United States.--Colored Troops--People--1860-1870.
  • African Americans--Military service--1860-1870.
  • Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
  • Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
  • Families--1860-1870.
  • Women--1860-1870.
  • Children--1860-1870.
  • Hats.
  • United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
• Format:
  • Ambrotypes--1860-1870.
  • Group portraits--1860-1870.
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
• Collections:
  • Civil War
  • Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
• Part of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restriction on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-36454 (digital file from original item, tonality adjusted) LC-DIG-ppmsca-26454 (digital file from original item)
• Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5001 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype ; 13.9 x 16.4 cm (frame)

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• Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5001 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype ; 13.9 x 16.4 cm (frame)
• Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served by appointment only because material requires special handling. For more information see: (http:\\www.loc.gov\rr\print\info\617_apptonly.html)

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