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National guard in camp at Bethlehem, PA

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.249 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1860/07 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Several men standing outside a tent with a sign on it that says "Little [illegible]". Handwritten on back: "DeWitt C. Baxter, H. Sternverger, John S. Duns, R.H. Jacobs, E. W. Ferry, John Warner, Camp Scene, Bethlehem, Pa. 1860." The men are wearing white pants and their jackets have tails. A woman wearing a hoop skirt sits on the right hand side of the photograph. On a plain, cream colored mount.

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