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- Union Army Captain William Colburn (in 1st Lieutenant Uniform), 1861 - J.E. McClees of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made this bust portrait of Union Army infantry officer William Colburn. Professional photographers made cartes-de-visite beginning in the 1860s. Mounted on small cardboard stock, these early photographic prints proved popular in the United States from the Civil War through the 1880s. Americans exchanged and collected CdVs to help them remember family and celebrities.
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Union Army Captain William Colburn (in 1st Lieutenant Uniform), 1861
J.E. McClees of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made this bust portrait of Union Army infantry officer William Colburn. Professional photographers made cartes-de-visite beginning in the 1860s. Mounted on small cardboard stock, these early photographic prints proved popular in the United States from the Civil War through the 1880s. Americans exchanged and collected CdVs to help them remember family and celebrities.