Faces of the Civil War An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories |
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| Author:
| Coddington, Ronald S. |
| Foreword by:
| Fellman, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-7876-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Before going off to fight in the Civil War, many soldiers on both sides of the conflict posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in ......
Before going off to fight in the Civil War, many soldiers on both sides of the conflict posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in ......