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LL/38170
Unidentified photographer
1847-1848 (ca)
Virginia Regiment, Calle Real

Daguerreotype
8 x 10 cm
 
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: WA Photos 26, Image ID Number: 1005277
 
Taken during the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
 
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/62_14.htm [Accessed 20 June 2010] for the PBS program "New Perspectives on The West" gave the following caption:
 
A daguerreotype showing Major Lucien B. Webster's battery in the mountains north of Buena Vista, Mexico, following an important American victory in the Mexican War.
 
LL/38170


 

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