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Colonel George Murphy, full length portrait seated. [maquettte] [salt print] [1861-1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0588 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 18.4 x 24.1 cm Order a Copy

Murphy is wearing gloves and has his sword at his belt. The image has been touched up [painted] for rephotographing. Inscriptions on verso: "a salt print touched up in Brady's gallery for reproduction [illegible]," "Col [inserted: Geo] Murphy 8th Wis," and "[illegible] here for surrendering Holly Shrugs." From the Meserve Collection.

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