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Unknown Distinguished officers. Confederate Navy [3 joined CDV collodion negatives]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0480 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph negative Date: 1861? Pagination: 1 glass plate 9.5 x 19 cm Order a Copy

Negative containg three images of the same carte de visite for reproduction. The carte contains trimmed oval photographs of seven naval figures (from the top, left to right): Lieut. Maury, Comm. Hollins, Comm. Semmes. Adml. Buchanan. Lieut. Reed, Capt. Hartstein, Capt. Moffet. LIMITED USE: USE COPY PRINT.

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