Soldier and Companion

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Soldier and Companion

between 1861 and 1865

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American

American

Tintype with brass mat and leather case

Plate: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.9 × 6.4 cm) Overall (mat): 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (11.4 × 8.3 cm) Overall (case, closed): 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 inches (12.1 × 9.5 × 1.9 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund

2001.133

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by 2001, Jackie Napoleon Wilson (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sharp, Ellen. Photographs from the Detroit Collections: An Exhibition Inaugurating the Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983, p. 37.

Wilson, Jackie Napoleon. "Facing History: Images of African-Americans Illuminate a Proud Past." Smithsonian Magazine, (November 1999): p. 139 (ill.).

______. Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War. New York, 1999, p. 127 (ill.).

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American, Soldier and Companion, between 1861 and 1865, tintype with brass mat and leather case. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund, 2001.133.

Soldier and Companion
Soldier and Companion