Handcolored Ambrotype of John Salmon ("Rip") Ford, circa 1856
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Artifact Overview
John Salmon Ford (1815-1897) posed in a fringed buckskin outfit for this ambrotype sometime in the late 1850s. Around this time, Ford served as a Texas Ranger fighting the Indigenous peoples and quelling border tensions with Mexico. Ford later became a colonel in the Confederate cavalry, leading his forces at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last military engagement of the Civil War.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Ambrotype (Photograph)
Date Made
circa 1856
Subject Date
circa 1856
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2000.0.62.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Glass (Material)
Collodion
Brass (Alloy)
Metal
Technique
Direct positive processes
Hand coloring
Dimensions
Height: 5.563 in
Width: 4.313 in
Length: 0.675 in
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