From collection General Photograph Collection
Back reads, " William E. Connelly in his book "Quantrill and the Border Wars" on page seven of the preface, stated. "There is no good protrait of Quantrill. He has a tintype made at the beginning og the war. It was lost in the yad of one fields, in Jackson county, who found it and preserved it until Thomson Quantrill came to Missouri. (The brother of William Quantrill. This visit was in 1869 or 1870.) He demanded the picture and it was given to him, but first photographed. The photographs made from this tintype, which lain in the ground for some time, are all the portraits known of Quantrill. Some one supposed he wore a mustache, and with a brush supplied one. E. P. DeHart had a portrait painted in Confederate uniform in company with a charater known as 'Indian Jim' no copy of which has been found. A.M. Winnerm, Kansas City, Missouri, had it painted in Confederate uniform, rank of Colonel, prints of which are common. This is the drawing of Quantrill that appeared in the Topeka, Kansas Capitol ofaugust 26, 1888. It is evidently made from the drawing that Winner made. The Kansas City, Missouri Public Library incidently has the original charcoal drawing of the portrait of Quantrill that Winner had drawn. Some one once stated that the early photo of Quantrill was taken at Independence, Missouri by a Mr. Burdge.
