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Albumen print of 23rd United States Colored Troops (USCT) Officers

1863-1865

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This albumen print mounted on textured paper depicts officers of the 23rd U.S. Colored Infantry. Four (4) large oval portraits of unidentified men in uniform are surrounded by nineteen (19) smaller oval portraits of unidentified men in uniform. Text printed in ink beneath the four larger central portraits reads "Commissioned Officers of the 23rd Regt / U.S. Colored Infantry." The reverse of the mount is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2015.222.6

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