[Unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. James Shields, in mourning dress and brooch showing Confederate soldier and holding young boy wearing kepi]

Confederate States of America.--Army--People--1860-1870

Women--1860-1870

Widows--1860-1870

Boys--1860-1870

Mourning clothing & dress--1860-1870

Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870

Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate

Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870

Group portraits--1860-1870

Portrait photographs--1860-1870

Encased, hand-colored ambrotype of unknown widow and child. A dealer identified the woman in the three-quarter length portrait as Mrs. James Shields. Dressed in mourning clothes, the woman wears a brooch of a Confederate soldier and sits in a chair. The boy she holds in her lap has a kepi cap on his head.

Rees, Charles R.

Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress)

Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

undated

Liljenquist, Tom

No known restrictions on publication.

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Is Part Of Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Civil War, Prints and Photographs Division

Photo, Print, Drawing.

Case: Papier mache with mother of pearl and hand painting; floral design.

English

Still Image

AMB/TIN no. 3094 [P&P]

ppmsca 37270 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37270

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013649140/

1861-1865

United States

1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored

8.0 x 6.9 cm (case)