Unknown Artist
Primary

David Branson, Sergeant Company H, 28th Infantry of Illinois

1861

Image
2 5/8 in. x 2 5/8 in. (6.67 cm x 6.67 cm)

This object has the following keywords:

• cased photographs - Use to describe photographs, usually daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, or tintypes, mounted in sturdy, boxlike cases.
• North American - Refers to the cultures of the continent of North America, which is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Circle, and Central America. In classifications schemes based on physical geography, Central America, and North America are parts of the same continent.
• photography - The art or process of making photographs, which are pictures produced by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, glass, paper, metal, or by digital means.
• portraits - Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness, usually including the face of the person. For representations intended to be anonymous, or of fictional or mythological characters, see "figures (representations)."
• soldiers - Generally refers to those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Specifically refers to military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers. For those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare and sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of actual membership in an army, see "warriors."
• tintype - A variant of the wet collodion process producing a direct positive image on a thin sheet of lacquered metal (usually iron, never tin).
• tintypes - Photographs produced by the wet collodion process directly on lacquered metal, usually iron.

• Image Dimensions: 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (6.668 x 6.668 cm)