Ball’s Wartime Camp Scene
By Buck Zaidel Four cartes de visite produced in Cincinnati during the Civil War years reveal how one of America’s most important 19th century photographers used painted backdrops as visual
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Triplets? Third Cousins? Thoughts on Three Similar Camp Scene Backdrops
By Buck Zaidel, with images from the author’s collection As a collector of Connecticut Civil War images, I am well aware of the artistic painted canvas camp scene backdrop seen