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Dors d'un retrat en ferrotip d'un soldat unionista durant la Guerra de Seccessió. És força facil trobar retrats de militars americans, tant unionistes com confederats, ja que s'en varen fer a desenes de milers. La gran majoria d'ells son ferrotips, és a dir, plaques de col·lodió humit sobre metall ennegrit.

Aquest ferrotip està acolorit amb detalls d'or i blau als pantalons, cosa força comuna a l'època, i protegit per una caixeta tipus "Union Case", amb decoració en llautó amb motius de banderes nord-americanes, baionetes, timbals i canons. Al seu peu una llegenda diu "The Union Now and Forever".

El més interssant, però és que al dors del ferrotip hi ha una etiqueta detallant que fou fet el 9 de maig de 1863 al M'Carriar's Saloon de Baltimore (concretament al 9-11 de West Baltimore St., "entre l'institut i el pont"). Això fa pensar que el soldat era d'aquella ciutat, però tambe podia estar de pas, ja que a la gorra sembla portar el distintiu del 18th Regiment. Aquesta unitat va servir a les ofensives contra Atlanta, i les batalles de Chickamauga i Chattanooga.

He buscat aquesta adreça al Google Maps i ara són tot edificis moderns, al centre de Baltimore: goo.gl/maps/A3ZokN7tAz9B1DTg7

No penseu que és gaire més gran que una foto de carnet actual...

Quan vaig començar a fer plaques de col·lodió em va venir la idea de obtenir alguns ambrotips i ferrotips autentics de finals del s. XIX-principis del XX. Realment resisteixen el pas del temps!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)#Civil_War

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This is the back of a ferrotype of a US Army soldier during the American Civil War. It is quite easy to find portraits of American soldiers, both Union and Confederate, as tens of thousands were made; but they are not cheap; and this one has particularly interesting details. The vast majority of them are ferrotypes, that is, plates of wet collodion on blackened metal.

This sixth-plate ferrotype is colored with gold details, and blue on the trousers, quite common at the time, and protected by a "Union Case", decorated in brass with motifs of American flags, bayonets, drums and cannons . At its foot a legend reads "The Union Now and Forever".

The most interesting thing, however, is that on the back of the plate there is a label detailing that it was made on May 9th, 1863 (almost half-way in the war) at M'Carriar's Saloon in Baltimore (specifically at 9-11 West Baltimore St., "between the high school and the bridge"). This suggests that the soldier was from that town, but he could also be passing through, as he appears to be wearing the badge of the 18th Regiment on his cap. This unit served in the offensives against Atlanta, and the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. I've checked the Saloon adress and it's now all modern central Baltimore buildings:
goo.gl/maps/A3ZokN7tAz9B1DTg7

This tintype may look large, but it's not much larger than a current passport portrait.

The tintypes of later XIX Century can be difficult to date, as the first were made c.1852 and were dominant until around 1880 when the dry plates displaced the collodion wet plates. But tintypes continued as a cheap way to get portraits until the 1930s!

When I started making wet plate collodion images, the idea came to me to get some authentic ambrotypes and tintypes from the end of the XIX or early XX Centuries. They really stand the test of time!

Taken on: December 20, 2022

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