Unidentified Girl in Mourning Dress,Father Killed in American Civil War,c1865

Title: [Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat]
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1870]
Summary: Photo shows a girl holding a framed image of her father. Judging from her necklace, mourning ribbons, and dress, it is likely that her father was killed in the war. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 2-61.
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: Rick Brown, Civil War Show, Chantilly, Virginia, 2007
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Published in: Military images, vol. XII, no. 3 (November-December 1990), front cover.
Exhibited: 'The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection' at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Subjects:
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
Girls--1860-1870.
Families--1860-1870.
Mourning clothing & dress--1860-1870.
Photographs--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2010648759/
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