Object Details
- Description
- A tintype of a U. S. Buffalo Soldier seated on a wooden chair. Captured in studio against a floor length fabric backdrop, an unidentified Buffalo Soldier gazes directly at the camera. He wears a light-colored shirt, unbuttoned dark jacket, trousers and leather shoes. His proper left arm rests on a cloth covered table, on which is also his uniform cap; the emblem on the front is visible, but out of focus. His shirt buttons, a ring on the pinky finger of his proper right hand, and his watch chain have been hand-colored a bright yellow. There are no markings on the reverse of the tintype.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- United States Army, American, founded 1775
- Date
- ca. 1886
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- collodion and silver on iron with lacquer
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image and Sheet): 3 15/16 x 2 3/8 in. (10 x 6.1 cm)
- Type
- tintypes
- portraits
