Details
Title "A guard of colored soldiers" [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Full-length group portrait depicting three African American Union soldiers, attired in uniform, standing with bayoneted rifles in hand. In the left is their white man commander, attired in uniform, and holding a sword. Possibly soldiers from Camp William Penn, the African American training camp near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Notes Title from manuscript note on recto.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American men.
African American soldiers.
Bayonets -- United States.
Rifles -- United States.
Soldiers -- Union.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits- group - Military [5779.F.3d]
Accession number 5779.F.3d