Cotrena Family Photos & Docs

This comprehensive family archive comprises one large photo album and a group of loose photographs and documents spanning from the late Victorian era through 1966. The collection includes a variety of photographic processes, most notably a single 19th-century ferrotype (tintype) depicting a woman in a standing pose wearing a dark bustle dress with elaborate pleated and ruffled detailing. A hand-tinted oval portrait of a man is presented in a pink card mount. The majority of the collection consists of silver gelatin prints documenting domestic life, infants, and wedding parties. Military history is well-represented within the group. A decorative cardboard folder is inscribed in ink Your Compare Pvt. Nicholas Cotrena and holds a studio portrait of a soldier in uniform. The soldier's sleeve displays the Circle A shoulder sleeve insignia of the Third United States Army. Another loose print shows a soldier in a field jacket standing against a painted landscape backdrop. A series of silver gelatin prints dated MAR 66 in the margins document street scenes, civilian buses, and commercial buildings in South Korea.

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