CIVIL WAR PHOTO ARCHIVE OF ID'D INDIANA CAVALRYMAN,

CIVIL WAR PHOTO ARCHIVE OF ID'D INDIANA CAVALRYMAN, (image 1/1)
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“J. A. Douglass.” A group of related images including three Civil War era tintypes of “J.A. Douglass” with two later paper photographs on cardboard mounts of an elderly “Martha Douglass,” presumably his wife, the last dated 1908. One bears an Anderson, Indiana imprint, the other by a nearby Kokomo, Indiana photographer where this archive originated. Also, an 1863 dated souvenir One Thousand Dollar Confederate Bond brought home and now split into six pieces along old fold lines retaining four of the uncut “Forty Dollar” coupons. The full plate tintype is in typical over-painted style measuring 8 x 10 inches and shows a heavily bearded Douglass in fanciful civilian shirt rendered to look military. It is in pristine condition and penciled on the verso is “Father J.A. Douglass.” The second likeness of Douglass wearing a cavalry shell jacket is a small tintype measuring 1 1/2 inches tall mounted in a period brass oval double-sided brooch with a T-bar clasp and cover glass. Elegantly simple, this jewelry was certainly worn by Martha as a keepsake during the war. The crowning image is a CDV size tintype in original red-bordered paper mount showing trooper Douglass in full regalia armed with his Sharps carbine, Colt Navy, and M1840 saber. Details abound including the western style pork-pie hat complete with brass crossed sabers, rough leather read more
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