CDV album has brown leather cover with embossed design on the front and back. Leather is in fair condition, with some wear all over, but especially on the spine, edges and corners. Leather on spine is very distressed and torn and there is a tear on the bottom left corner of the front cover.

Album has ivory vellum lining on inside of front and back covers. All pages are present and intact but are unattached from the spine. The edges of the pages are gold gilt which has retained its brightness. The album closes with a decorative gold colored metal clasp which is still firmly attached.

Album contains 46 images plus a card with a poem. There is space for 50 images. There are a variety of men, women and children of all ages. Men are in civilian attire and three are in Union uniforms. These images are of individuals, couples and families.

Album measures approx. 5 ½” x 4” x 2 ¼”.

On the first page inside the front cover in pencil is, “Mrs. Ruth Pratt / Canisteo / Steuben / Co.”; on the reverse of this page, also in pencil, is “Mrs. Tulley D. Pratt”.  Majority of the images are identified with names written on the album pages, which include Pratt, Moon, Howell, Flint, Granger, Cole, and Johnson.

The 3 military images are as follows:

• Union soldier CDV identified as Robert Moon. ¾ length seated view wearing 9 button frock & sky blue trousers.
• Tintype in CDV holder of Union soldier; waist length view holding sword; gold tint to buttons  rectangular belt plate.
• Tintype of pair of unidentified Union soldiers; ¾ length standing view, both wearing 9 button frock coats and swords.

Robert A. Moon was born in 1831 in Onondaga County; by 1850 he was a resident of Steuben County, NY. By 1860 he had moved to Mecosta County, Michigan. He was a resident of Big Springs in Mecosta County when he enlisted as a 1^st Lt. at Grand Rapids on 9/1/62. On 10/11/62 he was commissioned into Co. “I”, 6^th Michigan Cavalry. Listed as a POW on 10/1863 at Charlestown, WV (confined at Macon, GA and Columbia, SC). He was returned to his regiment on 5/9/65 (place not stated), and mustered out on 11/24/65 at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Moon lost the sight in one eye due the flash of a gun. Following the war he resided in Big Rapids, MI where he worked in the lumber business; he died there on 12/9/1906. He is buried in Highland View Cemetery in that town.

This is a great album for a collector of Civil War era civilian and military images. Accompanied by internet research material.

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