Civil War Photo Sleuth Profile
Civil War Photo Sleuth

@CWPhotoSleuth

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Dedicated to rediscovering the names and stories of unidentified soldiers and sailors in American Civil War-era images

Joined July 2015
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Kurt Luther will be presenting on Civil War photo sleuthing at the grand reopening of the expanded American Civil War Museum in Richmond tomorrow (Saturday) at 1pm. The event is sponsored by The Civil War Monitor. Hope we will see you...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
We are recruiting a couple more people to test a new feature of our website, called "Second Opinion," as part of a Virginia Tech research study. If you've ever tried to...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
In our latest Military Images column, we give an update on our Civil War Photo Sleuth software, including a detailed report of its first month of usage, in which over 100 unknown Civil War soldier portraits were...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Civil War Photo Sleuth placed third in the "Best Tool or Suite of Tools" category at the 2018 Digital Humanities Awards! Thanks so much to everyone who voted for your support. https://t.co/o88EUnArgH
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Civil War Photo Sleuth is a nominee for the 2018 Digital Humanities Awards! Will you vote for us? Please visit this link before March 3 and check our box under the "Best DH...
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This is the voting form for the openly-nominated openly-voted Digital Humanities Awards 2018. Please go look at the nominated resources at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2018/voting/ before voting....
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Many people have seen this famous photo of Civil War Marines from The Library of Congress. The man on the far left is often described as an officer, maybe because of his sword. If you look closely, though,...
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Many people have seen this famous photo of Civil War Marines from The Library of Congress. The man on the far left is often described as an officer, maybe because of his sword. If you look closely,...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Yesterday, this "brigadier general (signature indecipherable)" CDV was sold by Cowan's Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers. We have...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Many of us rely on established sources like museum collections and published books for reference photos of identified soldiers. But what happens when even these "gold standards" are wrong? In my latest Military...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
For Thanksgiving, we want to thank all of you, our readers and software users. Since the August launch, we have over 3,000 registered users of Civil War Photo Sleuth, and over 7,000 *new* photos added by...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Last night we launched some new features and fixes for Civil War Photo Sleuth! These include: * You can now delete your own uploads. On the home page, click the "X" on the top right of the photo you wish to...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Photo Sleuth featured in https://t.co/NpahDIDbgo! Civil War Photo Sleuth featured in https://t.co/NpahDIDbgo! https://t.co/u9eg5GHtEJ
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Thank you to Garry Adelman and Bob Zeller of The Center for Civil War Photography for inviting us to talk about Civil War Photo Sleuth at the 18th Annual Image of War Seminar this weekend in the Washington DC...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
If you missed the August 1 launch of Civil War Photo Sleuth at the National Archives, fear not, for you can read all about it in our latest Military Images column, available now online:...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
We have reached over 2,000 photo sleuths! Thanks to everyone who has liked and followed our page. We hope this is the first step in creating a strong sleuthing community, where people are able to discuss their discoveries and share their photographs for the benefit of all.
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Photo Sleuths! TOMORROW is the official public launch of the Civil War Photo Sleuth software ( https://t.co/kbSRZFIza7)! We encourage you to create your own CWPS account tomorrow and begin to explore the...
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Photo Sleuths! TOMORROW is the official public launch of the Civil War Photo Sleuth software (www.civilwarphotosleuth.com)! We encourage you to create your own CWPS account tomorrow and begin to...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Say hello to Natalie, our other CWPS summer intern! Natalie is a rising junior at the University of Georgia, majoring in Public Relations and History. This summer she has helped plan our launch party,...
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Say hello to Natalie, our other CWPS summer intern! Natalie is a rising junior at the University of Georgia, majoring in Public Relations and History. This summer she has helped plan our launch...
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Civil War Photo Sleuth
7 years
Introducing our awesome Civil War Photo Sleuth summer intern Ryan! Ryan is a rising senior at Virginia Military Institute, majoring in Computer and Information Science. This summer he has done some amazing...
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Introducing our awesome Civil War Photo Sleuth summer intern Ryan! Ryan is a rising senior at Virginia Military Institute, majoring in Computer and Information Science. This summer he has done some...
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