Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Benjamin Snyder Purse |
Catalog Number |
2012.012.00039 |
Description |
Ninth-plate ambrotype with applied color; man seated, waist up, facing camera, hands resting in lap, dark hair parted on side; Confederate officer's double breasted frock coat with two rows of seven buttons; 1st lieutenant's collar insignia of two bars of gold braid on each side of standing collar; nonpareil metal mat; preserver is stamped with foliate design; case is leather-covered wood, embossed with foliate scroll; obverse case [cover] section missing; |
Medium |
Brass/Glass/Leather/Metal/Paint/Wood |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
1st Georgia Infantry (Olmstead's), Co. C |
Provenance |
Benjamin Snyder Purse, brother of Julia Isabella Purse Tebeau. |
People |
Purse, Benjamin Snyder |
Search Terms |
Savannah, Georgia |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Photographs Photography Soldiers War Wet plate negatives uniforms Soldiers |