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Civil War image - Nashville
Here's another new acquisition. No banjo content here, but I wonder just who these fellows are--minstrels, actors, whatever? Is anyone familiar with this image? The CDV is by A.S. Morse, Dep't of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. and almost certainly dates to the Civil War years. It's a great image for CW reenactors.
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Comment by Bob Sayers on March 14, 2015 at 12:03am
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Balloonists! Very interesting.
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Hi Daniel, Thanks for the new information. However, I did a little more sleuthing and think the photographer's name is Algenon S. Morse, not Sydney Morse. I was really hoping these guys were minstrels or traveling theatre folk--they look like something out of Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi." But balloonists or the photographer's crew are okay as well. By the way, I can recommend a small book by John Hanners called "It Was Play or Starve: Acting in the Nineteenth Century Theatre." A quick read and very entertaining.
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Hi Dan'l, Thanks for your help. This is an amazing pair of Civil War photographs, too. These should be in the new National Museum of African American History!
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