Liljenquist Civil War Photographs on American Artifacts

SUNDAY at 6pm & 10pm ET on C-SPAN3 - Tom Liljenquist and his sons, Jason, Brandon, and Christian began collecting Civil War ambrotype and tintype photographs of ordinary soldiers in the mid-1990s. In 2010, the family donated more than 700 photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers to the Library of Congress. The collection now contains over 2000 images.

in 2011, Tom Liljenquist and two of his sons showed some of their favorites and were joined by library representatives in talking about the photographic processes, the images, and the collection.

[jasonkrausz]

Whoever was handling the image at the 2 minute mark should be reprimanded for popping it out like that. It's probably a $1500 image, a d he's banging it out like a children's toy.