Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Charles A. Pace |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.02050 |
Description |
Quarter-plate ambrotype with applied color on ruby glass of a man standing at attention, facing camera, looking at camera, wearing shako with a large plume and insignia, hair cut mid-ear, slightly curled on right, clean shaven, cheeks and lips tinted pink; wearing single-breasted braided coatee, with 15 buttons visible, tinted gold, white standing collar, white epaulettes, white cuffs with three buttons visible on left cuff, tinted gold, white cross belts with breastplate tinted gold, white belt around waist with large beltplate tinted gold, cap pouch attached to belt at right, straight trousers with white trouser braid visible, hands and arms at sides, wearing white gloves, right hand holding Springfield Model 1855 rifle-musket with butt on the ground and bayonet fixed, studio backdrop visible where it does not completely reach the floor; Double-elliptical gilt mat, plain, preserver stamped with simple foliate scroll; , embossed-leather-covered case with floral motif, door section missing, gilt edging on interior of case, two latch hooks intact; obverse [cover] section missing; |
Medium |
Brass/Glass/Leather/Metal/Paint/Photographic Emulsion/Ruby Glass/Wood |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Event |
Battle of Gaines' Mill / First Cold Harbor |
Owner Regiment |
18th Virginia Infantry, Co. A, "Danville Blues" |
Provenance |
A tobacconist from Danville, Virginia, Charles A. Pace posed for his photograph in Richmond in 1861 wearing the uniform of the Danville Blues, a militia company founded in 1841. Pace was killed at the battle of Gaines’s Mill, Virginia, on June 27, 1862. |
People |
Pace, Charles A. |
Search Terms |
Battle of Gaines' Mill / First Cold Harbor Danville, Virginia Peninsula Campaign Seven Days Battles |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Casualties, War dead persons Firearms Guns Infantry Militias Muskets Photographic studios Photographs Photography Rifles Soldiers War War casualties |