On Distinguishing Props from Personal Items
One of my favorite moments at a collector’s show is the instant when I open the case of an ambrotype or tintype and peer into the face of the soldier
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Armed to the Teeth? The Use of Prop Weapons in Civil War Studio Photography
By Katelyn Brown Few people would dispute the accepted fact that battlefield photographers of the Civil War sometimes included props—even human beings—in their photographs. Alexander Gardner famously moved corpses in