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Title: Rather die freemen than live to be slaves - 3rd United States Colored Troops
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Bowser, David Bustill, 1820-1900 , artist

Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870]
Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
Summary: Regimental flag depicting African American soldier and Columbia holding an American flag between them.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-23098 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LOT 6592, no. 134 USE SURROGATE [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
On verso: D.B. Bowser - Artist - No. 481 North 4th St. Philada.
Photograph of painting by Bowser.
In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 134, surrogate p. 34 (upper right).
Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room.
Subjects:
African Americans--Military service--1860-1870.
Columbia (Symbolic character)--1860-1870.
Military standards--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Format:
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Allegorical paintings--Reproductions--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Collections:
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