Cabinet card of a Buffalo Soldier

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

An albumen print on cabinet card depicting a young Buffalo Soldier. Captured gazing to his proper right, an unidentified young man with dark short hair wears a bright shirt, dark button-down vest, and dark jacket. The jacket has two rectangle emblems at the lapels and large buttons with eagle insignia down the front. At the bottom of the photograph card, in dark ink, is: [LANDER, SCOTT,WYOMING.]. There are various numeric graphite inscriptions on the reverse of the cabinet photograph.

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