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Home : Picturing the Process : A Portrait of the Process

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Unknown artist

Portrait of Civil War soldier

1863
tintype



See materials from the MOPA library

The Printed Picture, by Richard Benson (2008)
The Ferrotype and How to Make It, by Edward M. Estabrooke (1972)
My Brother's Face: Portraits of the Civil War in Photographs, Diaries, and Letters, by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod (1993)

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a donation from PhotoWings.

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