Albumen photograph, 6.25 x 8.75, on 8.75 x 10.625 in. mount, of an unidentified African American soldier in uniform posed before a stylized backdrop featuring a canon, other weaponry, a tent, an ironclad gunboat, and an American flag at Benton Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri. He appears to hold a conversion musket with a fixed bayonet, possibly a prop. Uncredited, n.d. This painted backdrop appears in images produced by photographer Enoch Long (1823-1898), an East Coast native who studied under daguerreian pioneer Robert Cornelius In 1846, Long relocated to St. Louis to establish his own studio, which he moved to Benton Barracks, a Union Army training facility, in 1861. Enoch commissioned this backdrop, as well as two others, for use in his portraits of soldiers, and other photographers who operated near the camp used similar variations.
Albumen photograph, 6.25 x 8.75, on 8.75 x 10.625 in. mount, of an unidentified African American soldier in uniform posed before a stylized backdrop featuring a canon, other weaponry, a tent, an ironclad gunboat, and an American flag at Benton Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri. He appears to hold a conversion musket with a fixed bayonet, possibly a prop. Uncredited, n.d. This painted backdrop appears in images produced by photographer Enoch Long (1823-1898), an East Coast native who studied under daguerreian pioneer Robert Cornelius In 1846, Long relocated to St. Louis to establish his own studio, which he moved to Benton Barracks, a Union Army training facility, in 1861. Enoch commissioned this backdrop, as well as two others, for use in his portraits of soldiers, and other photographers who operated near the camp used similar variations.
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