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[Culpeper, Va. African-American contrabands at leisure]

O'Sullivan, Timothy H.,1840-1882,photographer.

1863 November.

NOTES

No. 0241

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863.

Shows two African American men, escaped slaves, sitting in front of a white army tent, one with cigar and the other with a soup ladle.

SUBJECTS
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Afro-Americans.
Military cookery.
Wet plate negatives.

MEDIUM
1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

CALL NUMBER
LC-B811-0221

REPRODUCTION
LC-B8171-0221 DLC (b&w film neg.)

COLLECTION
Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

From The Civil War and the Internet, Copyright 1995. R. Muns.