ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of Pennsylvania Zouave soldiers in a field] via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

ca. 1861-65, [tintype portrait of Pennsylvania Zouave soldiers in a field]

via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

ca. 1860-1900, [tintype, flood scene at the Eastern Delaware River] via Luminous Lint, Courtesy of Larry Gottheim, Be-Hold Photographics

ca. 1860-1900, [tintype, flood scene at the Eastern Delaware River]

via Luminous Lint, Courtesy of Larry Gottheim, Be-Hold Photographics

ca. 1863, [tintype portrait of Private Henry McCollum of Company B, 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and three unidentified soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee] , Royan Linn via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1863, [tintype portrait of Private Henry McCollum of Company B, 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and three unidentified soldiers at Point Lookout, Tennessee] , Royan Linn

via the Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

ca. 1846, [daguerreotype portrait of a Pennsylvania militia man in full uniform], Marcus Aurelius Root via the Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept., Cased Photographs Collection

ca. 1846, [daguerreotype portrait of a Pennsylvania militia man in full uniform], Marcus Aurelius Root

via the Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept., Cased Photographs Collection

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