Unidentified Vivandiere

[sbl]

I finally found this photo on-line. I remember writing to Carlisle Barracks about this photo but they didn't know and seemed to be tired of folks asking!
This maybe a photo of an actress in a Vivandiere role. Do those sleeves look 1860s?

http://pic.srv5.wapedia.mobi/thumb/3b4214230/en/max/720/900/Army_mil-2008-08-05-123736.jpg

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

To me, and this is merely speculative, it seems to me to be post-war, Indian Wars type, if she is indeed American. The big key to me is the kepi - it has all the earmarks of the later issue kepi with the low crown and the shape of the bill.

[lincolnsguard]

I've seen that photo before and, I can't for trying, remember the or, find the providance. But, it comes to mind she is from a Woman's sufferage group, late 1800's.

[sbl]

"But, it comes to mind she is from a Woman's sufferage group, late 1800's."


There's a possibility, but those sleeves. There was The Female Rights' Musketeers, various the "Broom Brigades" The uniform of the Breckenridge Broom Brigade is close..

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~livcomo/images/brigade.html

And this illustration of the Broom Brigade from...

Life on the Mississippi.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/twainlife/twain447.jpg

The photo has been around and even identified as Annie Etheridge. I asked about ther canteen on the equipment forum and it could be French.

[sbl]

Thank you...That kepi does look 1870s, maybe Franco-Prussian War. I hope someone can tell me about the sleeve style.