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Hollyland's Metropolitan Photograph Gallery (1864) [Lieutenant Daniel Waite Burdick]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05528.09 Author/Creator: Hollyland's Metropolitan Photograph Gallery (1864) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1864 Pagination: 1 carte de visite-de-visite : b&w ; 10.2 x 6.4 cm. Order a Copy

Vignette bust portrait with small beard and mustache. Name inscribed on recto under photograph.

Burdick enlisted as a Private on 29 August 1862. He was mustered in as Private, Company K, 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment New York on 7 September 1862.

Burdick, Daniel Waite, fl. 1864

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