Figure 32: All Men . . .
Maker: unknown
Sitter/Subject: unknown
Genre: studio portrait (probably itinerant setting), commercial
Process: carte de visite, albumen print
Dimensions: cdv standard
Date: circa 1863
Collection: Greg French
Notes: Two men in rags. In period pencil below the image is written on the mat: “All men are created equal.”
On reverse of card in period pencil, same hand as the front: “This is not exagerated [sic] in the least - : not one out of ten of the niggers here, who have run away from their masters (and there are thousands of them) can boast of such good clothes. Shove them into the army, I say, and let them do the fighting in this hot Department.”
This image was probably sent by mail to a friend or family member by a Union soldier serving in the Civil War.