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This is a carte de visite of "Old Abe", a live eagle which was carried through a three year campaign and many battles by the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. The carte-de-visite was removed from an album belonging to Lt. Charles H. Slawson, who served in Company I of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry.
Creator: Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding
Date: 1865
Item Number: 225449
Call Number: E461 *231
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225449
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869 - 1865
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Carte-de-visite
Places - Other States - Illinois - Chicago
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Carte-de-visite
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