The Children of the Battlefield
The Children of the Battlefield
The Children of the Battlefield
The Children of the Battlefield

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The Children of the Battlefield,

November 1867

Unknown photographer
2021-70

Information

Title
The Children of the Battlefield
Dates

November 1867

Maker
Unknown photographer
Medium
Carte-de-visite
Dimensions
image: 8.9 × 5.8 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/16 in.) mount: 9.9 × 6.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David B. Long in honor of John Burkhalter
Object Number
2021-70
Inscription
Handwritten in ink on back, along top: Clarence F. Turner
Marks/Labels/Seals
Printed on front, bottom: FRANK, FREDERICK, ALICE. Printed on back, top: "THE CHILDREN OF THE BATTLE FIELD!" | This is a copy of the Ferrotype found in the hands of |Sergeant Humiston of the 154th N. Y. Volunteers as he | lay dead on the Battle Field of Gettysburg. | These copies are sold in furtherance of the Sabbath - School | effort to found and endow the National Homestead at | Gettysburg for Orphans of our Soldiers and Sailors, in | Memorial of our Perpetuated Union. Printed on back, center: [W. T. & B. monogram] WENDEROTH, TAYLOR & BROWN | 912 – 914 | Chestnut Street | Philadelphia Printed on back, bottom: This Picture is private property, and can not be copied | without wronging the Soldier's Orphan's for whom it is | published. | Philadelphia, Nov. 1867 | J. Francis Bourn, M.D. | Gen'l Sec't
Culture
American
Type
photographs, cartes-de-visite
Subject
children (people by age group), figures (representations), boys, girls, studios (work spaces)

Purchased February 26, 2021 at Cowan's “American Historical Ephemera and Photography” online auction, lot #38

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