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Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Title |
Date | Object Number | |
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| "Come Out of that Coat", Murfreesboro, Tennessee; verso: "Arkansas Toothpick": Bowie Knife | 1862 | 1945.580.17 | |
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"Chulas", Four Sketches of Spanish Women | c. 1880 | 1935.85.1.44 |
| "Bit on the Boulevard," New York City | 1898 | 1913.24 | |
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"Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes" from his Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi | ca. 1862 | 1945.580.107 |
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"Arranging the lay figure" | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.177 |
| "Amigo Protector" Off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York | 1814 | 1953.263 | |
| "A. R." (Ashbel Ralston?): Silhouette | 1805 | Z.2564eee | |
| "A Bit of the Old Five Points", New York City | c. 1868 | X.415 | |
| 1935 | 1981.32 |
