Details
Creator Levy & Cohen, photographer.
Contributor Levy, Cornelius, 1842-1865, photographer.
Cohen, Leon Solis, 1840-1884, photographer.
Title Encampment [at Richmond] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : glass negative; negative 17 x 22 cm (6.5 x 8.5 in.)
Description Portrait of several Union army soldiers and personnel at an encampment in Richmond, Virginia during the city's occupation. Near a row of tents, under a canopy made of branches, most of the men sit on chairs. Outside of the canopy two African American men crouch.
Notes Title from negative sleeve.
Date inferred from content.
Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980.
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.
Biographical / historical note Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish photographers from Philadelphia who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Subject African American men -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Military camps -- Union -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Soldiers -- Union -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union.
Genre Glass negatives -- 1860-1870.
Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Glass Negatives-Levy & Cohen [P.8532.43]
Accession number P.8532.43