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Various Cartes de visite, including one of Tucker and Charles Park

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03395 Author/Creator: Various Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 5 carte de visites ; 11 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

These are cartes de visite of Massachusetts officers: Charles E. Tucker (Capt. 44th Mass.) (signed by himself), Charles Park (44th Mass., signed), Capt. Charles Kendall (24th Mass. Vols.), Unidentified officer with folded arms, Group portrait of officers in the 44th Mass.

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