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Unidentified sergeant, seated full-length portrait with legs crossed

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1211 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 9.7 cm, Width: 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Subject's right hand is on a table, and his cheeks have been colored. Photographers imprint on verso: "Photographed by R. Richardson, 1218 Market Street, Philadelphia." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

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