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Tintype of a young sergeant

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05131.33 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 7.6 x 6.5 cm Order a Copy

Half length view with uniform buttons painted gold. CASE: Top missing. Hinges still attached to bottom half. (See Clifford & Michele Krainik, Union Cases, #544.) Case thickness 0.6 cm.

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