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Photographic portrait of Lt. Charles J. Blackwood

1914-1918

Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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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.

Photographic portrait of Lt. Charles J. Blackwood during World War I in full military dress. The photograph is taken in a studio and has a neutral background. Blackwood is wearing a tunic jacket with U.S.R. pins on either side of his jacket collar for United States Reserves. He is also wearing a campaign hat. The back of the photographs has four areas at each corner of another paper where it had previously been attached. There is a very faded maker's mark in the center that reads, [PHOTO BY / D & Mc Photos [underlined] / Rockford, ILL].

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Catalog reference: 2018.13.5.1

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