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Summary
Case: Berg, 3-95.
Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Photograph purchased from: Sharpsburg Arsenal, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 2007.
Lincoln and Johnson campaign button purchased from: Iron Gate Antiques, Turnersville, New Jersey, 2007.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Published in: The Civil War remembered. Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co. Publishers, c2011, p. 51.
Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Exhibited: "War Memoranda : The Civil War, Walt Whitman, and Renewal; the work of Binh Danh and Robert Schultz" at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Feb. - June, 2015.
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More than 2,500 special portrait photographs, called ambrotypes and tintypes, and small card photos called cartes de visite represent both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Tom Liljenquist and his sons Jason, Brandon, and Christian built this collection in memory of President Abraham Lincoln and the estimated 620,000-850,000 Union and Confederate servicemen who died in the American Civil War. For many, these photographs are the last known record we have of who they were and what they looked like. See "From the Donor's Perspective--The Last Full Measure" for the full story. The Liljenquist Family began donating their collection to the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division in 2010, and continues to add to it. In addition to the ambrotypes and tintypes, the collection also includes several manuscripts, patriotic envelopes, photographs on paper, and artifacts related to the Civil War. The portraits often show weapons, hats, canteens, musical instruments, painted backdrops, and other details that enhance the research value of the collection. Other photo topics include flags, city views, veterans, and ships. Among the rarest images are sailors, African Americans in uniform, Lincoln campaign buttons, and portraits of soldiers with their families and friends. LOC Prints & Photographs Division holds thousands of images relating to the Civil War, found in many different collections.