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Title	[Private William Burgess, Confederate States of America Army]
Creator	Unknown
Date	ca. 1861-1862
Decade	1860-1869
Part Of	Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection
Series	Series 1: Cased Images
Place	Texas
Description	Portrait of Private William Burgess, Company D, 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment, Whitfield’s Legion, Confederate States Army, with gold uniform buttons and revolver in belt. This ambrotype was one of 65 cased tintypes or ambrotypes that were ''found'' by a Union soldier at the Confederate ''dead letter'' office at Richmond, Virginia at the end of the war. The photographs remained ''lost'' until they appeared in a public auction in 1991. Source: Lawrence T. Jones III.
Notes	Ninth plate ambrotype in case with circle motif design, excellent condition. The original mailing label is glued to the ambrotype case and reads in part: ''From William Burgess, Capt. Whitfield’s Co. Texas Troops.'' It is addressed to William Bass in Fayette County, Texas.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2777978 Finding aid: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00085/smu-00085.html
Keywords	portraits; Texas; Southwest; U.S. West; men; military; Civil War; Confederate; Confederates; Confederacy; Confederate States Army; CSA; privates; soldiers; pistols; men; military
Subject Headings	Burgess, William--19th century--Photographs
Physical Description	1 photograph: ninth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored; 6.4 x 5.1 cm.
Form/Genre	Daguerreotypes Photographs Portraits
Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2010
Digital Format	Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution	Archival file: Recto: 240 ppi
Digitization Process	Digitization process: digitally photographed (4278 pixels high x 3714 pixels wide) and saved as 240 ppi 8-bits per channel, RGB .tif; derivative resized at 3000 pixels high; levels adjusted and resaved as 8-bits per channel, RGB .jpg
Physical Location	Series 1; Box 2
Call Number	Ag2008.0005
Upload File Name	ag2008_0005_1_02_06c_r_burgess_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	ag2008_0005_1_02_06a_burgess.tif; ag2008_0005_1_02_06b_burgess.tif; ag2008_0005_1_02_06c_r_burgess.tif; ag2008_0005_1_02_06d_burgess_label.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Ag2008-0005\Series1
Digital Collection	Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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