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Ambrotype full length view of soldier holding gun

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05131.11 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.7 x 8.4 cm Order a Copy

View of a soldier in full uniform, including a foraging cap and a rifle with a mounted bayonet. Military buttons and emblems painted gold. Ruby glass. CASE: Union case featuring Union shield, flags and arms surrounded by acanthus. (See Clifford & Michele Krainik, Union Cases, #109.) Case thickness 2.4 cm.

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