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Photo album with 39 carte de visite Civil War photos, including Brigham Young

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01261 Author/Creator: Place Written: Salt Lake City, Utah Type: Photograph Date: 1862-1864 Pagination: 1 v. (39 photographs) Order a Copy

With fore-edge painting. Includes views of Jim Bridger, Brigham Young, Ute and Shoshone Indians. Album presented "By the Boys" [troops] at Camp Douglas, to their commanding officer, Capt. E.B. Grimes, Q.M. Includes a few Washington DC scenes at end. Written at Camp Douglas.

Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

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