The Children of the Battlefield,

November 1867

The Children of the Battlefield

November 1867

Unknown

Carte-de-visite

image: 8.9 × 5.8 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/16 in.) mount: 9.9 × 6.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)

Gift of David B. Long in honor of John Burkhalter

2021-70

Handwritten in ink on back, along top: Clarence F. Turner

Printed on front, bottom: FRANK, FREDERICK, ALICE. Printed on back, top: "THE CHILDREN OF THE BATTLE FIELD!" | This is a copy of the Ferrotype found in the hands of |Sergeant Humiston of the 154th N. Y. Volunteers as he | lay dead on the Battle Field of Gettysburg. | These copies are sold in furtherance of the Sabbath - School | effort to found and endow the National Homestead at | Gettysburg for Orphans of our Soldiers and Sailors, in | Memorial of our Perpetuated Union. Printed on back, center: [W. T. & B. monogram] WENDEROTH, TAYLOR & BROWN | 912 – 914 | Chestnut Street | Philadelphia Printed on back, bottom: This Picture is private property, and can not be copied | without wronging the Soldier's Orphan's for whom it is | published. | Philadelphia, Nov. 1867 | J. Francis Bourn, M.D. | Gen'l Sec't

American

cartes-de-visite, photographs

figures (representations), children (people by age group), studios (work spaces), boys, girls