Re: Spaulding jacket/Illinois Infantry Jackets
I really hate it when sellers on eBay use a digital camera instead of a scanner! It looks like a VERY interesting image (from what I can tell from their crappy imges).
I love the paper mat (which, by the way, is original to the image: fairly common practice in the mid 1860s), and I've never seen one with the photographers mark on the front like that. George W. Sittler is listed in the 1870 US Census as an "Artist-Photo", living in Shelbyville, age 25 (he was still at home and only 15 in 1860).
I really hate it when sellers on eBay use a digital camera instead of a scanner! It looks like a VERY interesting image (from what I can tell from their crappy imges).
I love the paper mat (which, by the way, is original to the image: fairly common practice in the mid 1860s), and I've never seen one with the photographers mark on the front like that. George W. Sittler is listed in the 1870 US Census as an "Artist-Photo", living in Shelbyville, age 25 (he was still at home and only 15 in 1860).
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