[Unidentified Civil War veteran with medals and G.A.R. Post No. 35, Wauseon, Ohio, ribbon]

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1 photograph : albumen print ; sheet 14 x 10 cm, mount 17 x 11 cm (cabinet card format)

About this photograph

This cabinet card shows an unidentified Union veteran wearing his service medals and a ribbon identifying him as a member of Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 35 in Wauseon, Ohio. The photograph was made by F. G. Blackman in 1880.

The Grand Army of the Republic was the fraternal organisation of Union veterans of the Civil War, founded in 1866. Its local posts ran reunions and memorial observances for decades after the war. Members wore distinctive badges and regalia to encampments and parades, which accounts for the medals and ribbon visible in this portrait rather than wartime uniform.

The cabinet card format, with its albumen print mounted on heavy card stock measuring approximately 17 by 11 centimeters, was a popular size for studio portraiture in this period. It replaced the smaller carte de visite as the standard format for display photographs during the 1870s and remained common through the end of the century.

The veteran's identity was not recorded with the photograph. Without further documentation, his name, unit, and service record remain unknown.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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