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Officers of Heavy Artillery, Company B, Fort Warren
Creator
James Wallace BlackAmerican Photographer · 1825–1896
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- 1864
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0e4c79c9-0f3c-4d6a-a57b-aa5f84ed7ad6
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Six men in military uniforms sit on a wooden bench outside a stone building.
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