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- Handcolored Ambrotype of John Salmon ("Rip") Ford, circa 1856 - 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.
- circa 1856
- Collections - Artifact
Handcolored Ambrotype of John Salmon ("Rip") Ford, circa 1856
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.
- Portrait of Lawrence Washington Cole, Editor of "Michigan Argus," and Employees, 1851 - L.W. Cole, co-editor of the <em>Argus</em> newspaper in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1846 to 1854, sits with his employees in this daguerreotype from about 1850. Most photographs of this type were taken of an individual in his or her best clothing, so a group portrait of workers in everyday attire is rare.
- 1851
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Lawrence Washington Cole, Editor of "Michigan Argus," and Employees, 1851
L.W. Cole, co-editor of the Argus newspaper in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1846 to 1854, sits with his employees in this daguerreotype from about 1850. Most photographs of this type were taken of an individual in his or her best clothing, so a group portrait of workers in everyday attire is rare.