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Tintype of a camp scene featuring a tent and soldiers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05131.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 12.2 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Camp scene showing tent with eleven soldiers in the foreground. CASE: Union case with heraldic plate and fruit vine design. Case thickness 2.6 cm.

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