thomas aagaard
Captain
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2013
- Location
- Denmark
The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum have a collection of US uniforms.
What makes this collection special, is that all items are from an exchange made in 1858.
So its all prewar items that representative of what the ordinary soldier in the small army was issued...
Thought some of you might be interested.
About the items:
Text from the museum:
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I spoke shortly with one of the employees and he told me that the "raincoat" had basically fallen apart when you took it out of storage. The rubber hadn't survived the ageing.
He also told me that they had a big debate about if they should add weapons or not.
Not including them is show the exchange as it was. But adding weapons would make the "picture" of what a US soldier looked like more complete.
(the "no weapons" won)
Iam sure you will easily notice the embarrassing mistakes in the way the items is shown...
About the pictures
I only had about 15minutes to take the pictures with a borrowed camera, and with no experience taking pictures of museum items... so they could be better.
The pictures are the original ones. With photoshop or similar it should be possible to make them better by modifying the light balance and similar.
The last 9 pictures are of items (or info about them) from the two Sleswig wars. (1849-51 and 1864)
here is one example (cut down in size for the forum)
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The rest can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2yi5k4i1ouzmfzt/TwDgCwHhiW
Feel free to download a copy, fix the lightning and share with others... just make sure to tell where the items are at.
What makes this collection special, is that all items are from an exchange made in 1858.
So its all prewar items that representative of what the ordinary soldier in the small army was issued...
Thought some of you might be interested.
About the items:
Text from the museum:
Expired Image Removed
I spoke shortly with one of the employees and he told me that the "raincoat" had basically fallen apart when you took it out of storage. The rubber hadn't survived the ageing.
He also told me that they had a big debate about if they should add weapons or not.
Not including them is show the exchange as it was. But adding weapons would make the "picture" of what a US soldier looked like more complete.
(the "no weapons" won)
Iam sure you will easily notice the embarrassing mistakes in the way the items is shown...
About the pictures
I only had about 15minutes to take the pictures with a borrowed camera, and with no experience taking pictures of museum items... so they could be better.
The pictures are the original ones. With photoshop or similar it should be possible to make them better by modifying the light balance and similar.
The last 9 pictures are of items (or info about them) from the two Sleswig wars. (1849-51 and 1864)
here is one example (cut down in size for the forum)
Expired Image Removed
The rest can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2yi5k4i1ouzmfzt/TwDgCwHhiW
Feel free to download a copy, fix the lightning and share with others... just make sure to tell where the items are at.