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Anson, Rufus, fl. 1856 1/4 plate daguerreotype in uniform by Rufus Anson

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04688 Author/Creator: Anson, Rufus, fl. 1856 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1856 ca. Pagination: 1 cased image Height: 10.7 cm, Width: 8.3 cm Order a Copy

Daguerreotype showing George Lucas Hartsuff in regular US Army uniform as second artillery officer. Sothebys suggested it was probably taken shortly before he returned to West Point as an instructor in 1856. Case (not original): 12.75 x 10.3 x 2.4 cm.

Hartsuff, George Lucas, 1830-1874
Anson, Rufus, fl. 1856

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