Unidentified photographer
1865 (ca)
An unidentified washerwoman for the Union Army, Richmond, Virginia

Ambrotype, hand-painted
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Photographic History Collection, Catalog number 2005.0002.01
 
Note that she is wearing an American flag.
 
www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/07/06/128334240/a-flag-of-freedom
(Accessed: 29 September 2016) A Flag Of Freedom? July 6, 2010, 10:27 AM ET Shannon Thomas Perich
 
LL/62782