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Walker, Hiram, ? As sergeant, seated 3/4 length portrait

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1289 Author/Creator: Walker, Hiram, ? Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10 cm, Width: 6 cm Order a Copy

Subject has lost his left arm. His right arm rests on a table, and he is wearing a black hat. Ink inscription on verso "Hiram Walker. Lost arm May 29-1865 at Petersburg Va." Photographers imprint on verso: "This Negative Preserved at the Photographic Rooms of L. B. Silver, Salem, Ohio. Copies made for 25 cents each, or 5 for One Dollar. His fifteen years of experience in the beautiful Art of Making Pictures, and greatly improved facilities, enables him to make Photographs just as weel on a cloudy day, as in clear weather. His Photographs are gotten up with a very superior finish, and are pronounce by competent judges, to be equal to those take by the best Photographers in our Eastern cities. Parties not residing in Salem can make remittance in presence of their Post Master at our risk." Cancelled orange two-cent tax stamp on verso.

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