Gayford & Speidel, Rock Island, IL A unique group of 30 individual portraits of officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men of Company F, 108th United States Colored Infantry all but three are identified in a fine hand in ink verso, and most have comments in apparently the same, but a lighter hand, March, 1865. Cartes de visite from an album. Photographer is identified in print, verso, of all but three which are plain.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > ALBUMS > Gayford & Speidel, Rock Island, IL A unique group of 30 individual portraits of officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men of Company F, 108th United States Colored Infantry all but three are identified in a fine hand in ink verso, and most have comments in apparently the same, but a lighter hand, March, 1865. Cartes de visite from an album. Photographer is identified in print, verso, of all but three which are plain.


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Title
Gayford & Speidel, Rock Island, IL A unique group of 30 individual portraits of officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men of Company F, 108th United States Colored Infantry all but three are identified in a fine hand in ink verso, and most have comments in apparently the same, but a lighter hand, March, 1865. Cartes de visite from an album. Photographer is identified in print, verso, of all but three which are plain.
Creator
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created
1865
Description
Most subjects are typical standing or seated portraits of the period; some wear caps, some not; some are armed. Three are identified in pencil in the collector's hand, two of these (of enlisted men) were acquired separately and one is a duplicate (identities supplied by vendor), the third refers to one of the figures in the one double portrait, which is of two white officers, one is Lt. Wright who assembled the album. Most bear either a two cent orange, or a three cent green revenue stamp. The album is heavily embossed morocco, with arched openings and gold decorative lines; each slot is identified as to the soldier whose photograph was mounted in it, thus identifying the entire unit including those who's photographs are missing. Dedication reads, "Sarah A. Wright's Album. Photographs of Officers and Privates of the 108th Regiment of the U.S.C.T. Taken at Rock Island, Ill. in 1865. Sent by Lt. T.F. Wright to his Mother."
Provenance
Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
JWJ MSS 54
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Container / Volume
Box 35, folder 1082-1083

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Citation
Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Orbis Record
4465927
Object ID (OID)
2042537

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