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Re: dating a military photo
Posted by: C. Fronzek (ID *****3367) Date: January 26, 2009 at 20:30:14
In Reply to: dating a military photo by chrissie of 8188

You can forget about the War of 1812. Photography didn't get invented till about the late 1840s and it took a while for it to be widely avaiable. The Civil War was the first war where you see common soldiers being photographed in large numbers.


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