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| Posted: Wed Mar 14th, 2007 07:47 am |
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susansweet Member 
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So you are looking for any photo with a soldier wearing glasses right ? But it has to be in a group picture not just a soldier alone right ? Susan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14th, 2007 04:41 pm |
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Fuller E Pluribus Unum 
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Maybe the nearsighted Conf Gen Felix Zollicoffer should have worn his glasses?  Fuller
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14th, 2007 05:40 pm |
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susansweet Member
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I did find one portrait with some time of glasses on in my big Civl War photos that is edited by Willaim Davis and Bell Wiley . They are the pince nez type I was thinking as I was looking last nigh , (up late recovering from food poisoning ) that it would not have seemed manly to wear glasses and that being nearsided might have kept them out of the army at first . I did also find a phot of Stanton with glasses . But he was not a soldier. I agree Fuller Zollicofer could have used a pair of good glasses that fatal day. Would have saved his life .
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 08:07 pm |
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JoanieReb Member
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A field portrait of a soldier in glasses would be even more difficult to find due to the nature of wet-plate photography, which was how photos were taken at the time. Exposure time for pictures was usually between 10-14 seconds, so subjects were very carefully posed, then had to maintain the pose without motion for the full exposure time. If you look carefully at pictures of soldiers whom appear to be in motion, you will see that they are posed so as to appear to be in motion, and are holding the pose. If the pose wasn't held, the photographer ended up with something like Alexander Gardner's famous "two-headed dog" in plate 5 of "Gardner's Phototgrapic Sketchbook of the Civil War". So, soldiers would have removed their glasses either from vanity, or because lighting was so all-important that they would have been asked to remove their glasses out-of-doors, so as not to reflect the sun's rays and cause a hot-spot in the picture.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 08:09 pm |
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JoanieReb Member
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A field portrait of a soldier in glasses would be even more difficult to find due to the nature of wet-plate photography, which was how photos were taken at the time. Exposure time for pictures was usually between 10-14 seconds, so subjects were very carefully posed, then had to maintain the pose without motion for the full exposure time. If you look carefully at pictures of soldiers whom appear to be in motion, you will see that they are posed so as to appear to be in motion, and are holding the pose. If the pose wasn't held, the photographer ended up with something like Alexander Gardner's famous "two-headed dog" in plate 5 of "Gardner's Phototgrapic Sketchbook of the Civil War". So, soldiers would have removed their glasses either from vanity, or because lighting was so all-important that they would have been asked to remove their glasses out-of-doors, so as not to reflect the sun's rays and cause a hot-spot in the picture.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 08:22 pm |
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susansweet Member
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Joanie that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking that when I was looking at all the photos of groups of soldiers . I thought they must have had glasses, at least one or two of them . Maybe they are like friends of mine that always take their glasses off to have pictures taken I have even had photographers asked me to take my glasses off because of a glare. You have hit on the solution Iwould bet.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 09:19 pm |
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JoanieReb Member
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I have found a painting, by Dale Gallon, of the 24th Michigan in battle in which one soldier is clearly wearing glasses. I'll see if I can find an online link to it.... Mr. JDC, I do realize you said in camp, not battle, but so far, this is the best that I can do. Joanie Last edited on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 09:23 pm by JoanieReb |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15th, 2007 11:58 pm |
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JoanieReb Member
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Mr. JDC, I have found a group photograph of 10 officers of The USS Monitor, photographed in July 1862 by James Wilson (a member of The Matthew Brady Bunch), on the deck of The Monitor. The officer in the center is clearly wearing glasses. Before I go looking for an on-line version, does this fit your criteria? For any interested party, the photo is on page 72-73 of Chet Hearn's The Civil War - Virginia. It can't be scanned because it runs across the spine of the book through 2 pages. Joanie
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 02:43 am |
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medicboymatt Member 
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As I recall, Miss Joanie, that photo of the Monitor's officers on deck is a standard, it should be available in other sources, so if it isn't already scanned into JPEG somewhere online, it could be easily done without the "run-off" of your version.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 05:32 am |
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susansweet Member
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Joanie I found the photo in my William Davis Bell Wiley book . That guy has glasses for sure . They are also refleciting the light !!! I passed right over tha picture the other night. Good job. Susan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 12:02 pm |
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calcav Member
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In that photo of the officers on the Monitor it appears there are two possibly three men wearing glasses. That shoots the old one in a million theory in the foot. The seated officer on the left is William Keeler, the paymaster. If there is one guy on the ship I WANT wearing glasses, it's the guy working on my pay records. Here is another photo of the bespectacled swabbie. .org/monitor/07_life/image_page/keeler.html Tom
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16th, 2007 02:47 pm |
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David White Member 
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Aren't there more than one photo where Matthew Brady did the Hitchcock thing and put himself in the scene and isn't he wearing his glasses in those, I think that is the case? Also what's the deal with Union staff and general photos from the field, putting small black children on the ground at their feet, you see that in many of those types of photos?
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