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Description	Hand tinted Albumen print on carte de visite stock of Elisia Linsy Echols McCormick. MARKS: S. Anderson/Photographer/SA/61 Camp St. New Orleans
Event	Civil War
Medium	Cardstock/Photographic Paper/Ink/Paint
Neg #	20755
Notes	Full seated view of Elisia Linsy Echols McCormick wearing a long dress with hoop skirt, seated in a chair and leaning on a table. The tablecloth is tinted red, the chair brown, and her jewelry gold. Elisia was born in Louisville, Kentucky and married a man by the name of McCormick in 1830. They moved to New Orleans and had a son named James and a daughter named Emily. The family supported the Confederacy during the war. Ironicaly, her brother Charles D. Echols enlisted in Company H, 140th Ohio Infantry and fought for the north during the war. See letter from James McCormick to Charles Echols in archival material in Civil War Small Collections.
Object ID	P2001.3.41
Object Name	carte de visite
People	McCormick, Elisia Linsy Echols
Place	New Orleans, LA
Print size	H=4 W=2 1/2 in
Subjects	Civil War Confederate States of America Portrait photographs Female
Title	Elisia Linsy Echols McCormick
Year Range from	1861
Year range to	1862

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