Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 324

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Union soldiers. Sepia toned albumen photograph of a group of Union soldiers, including one African-American, seated in what appears to be an outdoor "office." A 1911 print from an original plate. Stamps of Patriot Publishing Company and Paramount Pictures Research Department on the reverse; some wear, a tiny chip from the upper right corner, not affecting the image. [Kentucky?, circa 1865]
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An intriguing photograph, showing a group of ten men, most of them seated in some kind of makeshift outdoor office. The only one in uniform is seated at a desk of sorts; next to him a black soldier is squatted down, wearing his "kepi" as are two of the remaining white men. It is most probable that this was a field office, and these men were receiving some sort of official papers--possibly their discharge [?]; a young man on the far right holds some papers on his lap