[Portrait of two unidentified men in Union case with an eagle atop the earth] [graphic].
still image
Union cases 1850-1900. gmgpc
Group portraits 1850-1900. gmgpc
Portrait photographs 1850-1900. gmgpc
Daguerreotypes Hand-colored 1850-1900. gmgpc
[between 1853 and 1860?]
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Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 1-20.
Union case probably made by Samuel Peck as early as 1853 may symbolize the Monroe Doctrine. (Source: Clifford and Michele Krainik. Union cases : a collector's guide to the art of America's first plastics. Grantsburg, WI : Centennial Photo Service, 1988, page 45, "Eagle and the Globe")
Tom Liljenquist;
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Men--1850-1900.
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress)
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