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A soldier of the Civil War
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
One half of a stereograph depicting five Civil War soldiers in a staged scene, squatting as if to defecate, including three men whose bare backsides are visible in the photograph. The men are on a dirt bluff with a wide river in the background. The back of the mount has a crossed out imprint for photographers Boehl & Koenig of St. Louis, Missouri, along with a pencil inscription reading "Operations of the / Army of the Tennessee."
photPF 26005
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Manuscripts
Collection of letters of Thomas Nast and his family -- Sarah Edwards Nast and Thomas Nast, Jr. There are twenty five letters by Thomas Nast, chiefly addressed to his wife, written during his trips to England and Italy to cover the Heenan-Sayers prizefight and Giuseppe Garabaldi's military campaign in Sicily (1860), (this group also includes six letters addressed to William Luson Thomas, 1830-1900), the tour of Pennsylvania battlefields in the summer of 1863, the trip to Washington in the beginning of 1872, his 1873 lecture tour, and from Guayaquil, Ecuador (1902). Also included are three letters from Sarah Edwards Nast to her husband (1859 and 1869). There is also a copy (in the hand of Mrs. Nast) of a satire of Andrew Johnson ("So sayeth King Andy Johnson"), perhaps a caption to a political cartoon.
mssHM 27714-27783