Newsreader cdv

[Matthew.Rector]

Here is a cdv of a soldier reading a paper. Posted on the net, I believe an eBay listing. Owner of original unknown.

[Matthew.Rector]

My follow up about this image was lost with the 2005-2006 postings, so I thought I'd repost it. At some point I had figured out that this image was in a Library of Congress collection.

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03481


P.S. I've removed the image from my first posting. Didn't feel it was necessary to use up valuable space!

[ScottCross]

Mathew,

I noticed that this is a staged image of an actor. It also appears to be shot with a stereoview camera for mass production. It may even be post-war, but who knows.

[rogue]

I believe that the person shown is the "Irish" comedian, Joseph Jefferson. The Irish were fodder for cannon during the Civil War and used in a similar wasteful manner during vaudeville days of less than political correct entertainment that followed the Ciovil War.
Steve Sullivan
"older than Scott and more in the wayer"

[ScottCross]

I believe that the person shown is the "Irish" comedian, Joseph Jefferson. The Irish were fodder for cannon during the Civil War and used in a similar wasteful manner during vaudeville days of less than political correct entertainment that followed the Ciovil War.
Steve Sullivan
"older than Scott and more in the wayer"

Hey, Sullivan you thick Mic!

Did I ever tell you that my mother's maiden name was Brennan? G-g-grandpa Patrick Brennan died at Shiloh, g-g-grandpa Patrick Murray lived through the war only to get smashed in the cars on the Rock Island Line in '66, and step-g-g-grandpa Michael Murphy deserted in May '65 cause the 'Damn War is Over!":wink_smil

[riptailedroarer]

I believe that the person shown is the "Irish" comedian, Joseph Jefferson. The Irish were fodder for cannon during the Civil War and used in a similar wasteful manner during vaudeville days of less than political correct entertainment that followed the Ciovil War.
Steve Sullivan
"older than Scott and more in the wayer"

Steve, the LOC lists him as Charles Parsloe, the image is published in the book "mr Lincoln's contemporaries" by Roy Meredith 1951, where he says that Parsloe who came from a acting family, was in Boucicault's company (Dion Boucicault an Irish born actor) were he played pantomime, "character" parts and comic dances.
I would say that the image is of Parsloe in one of his Character parts.Also parsloe was 25 years old in 1861 so I would say its pre or early war by his youth.

[johnf1862]

This image reminds me a lot of the "Regular Army O!", a post-war play in a series of plays by Ed Harrigan. The image here is taken from a tintype, which I have a photo of here on my desk.http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/broadway/images/regulararmyosm.jpg I will see if I can get a picture of the original tintype up. It really is a funny image, the play is a joke on the Irish in New York, as you can see all of the soldiers here are completely drunk.

[rogue]

John Laking, you are right sir!
Steve Sullivan