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Cabinet card of a Civil War Navy veteran

ca. 1871

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A cabinet card of a Civil War veteran. The unidentified man wears ribbons for the G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) of Virginia Veterans and Navy. A stamp at the bottom of the photograph reads: [Patten & Stratton / 47 Hanover Street, / Boston, Mass.

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Catalog reference: 2012.46.51

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