Alonzo H. Sterrett, Late Adjutant, Fortieth U.S. Infantry

Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery

July 27, 1865 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

Alonzo Sterrett was twenty in 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served for four years, becoming a lieutenant by war’s end, when he sat for this trick double-portrait. This carte de visite bears one likeness of his present circumstances and one of his recent past. At left he poses casually in an unbuttoned jacket as a civilian; at right, wearing his old officer’s frock coat, he poses formally as the late adjutant of the Fortieth United States Colored Infantry. He had mustered out of service six weeks earlier.

Artist

Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery

Date

July 27, 1865

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013