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Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896,. 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment carte de visite album, ca. 1863-1865.

Title: 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment carte de visite album, ca. 1863-1865.

Album containing 42 photographs collected by Capt. Richard Henry Lee Jewett of members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first Black regiment raised in the North during the Civil War. Subjects depicted include Jewett, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Edward N. Hallowell, and several African-African members of the regiment, among others. There are also several photographs of Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), Fort Pulaski (Ga.), and the regiment's military offices at Hilton Head, S.C., as well as one portrait of Frederick Douglass, whose sons served with the 54th, and several portraits of officers belonging to other regiments, including the 35th United States Colored Troops. The collection contains cartes de visite and one tintype photograph, and all were taken ca. 1863-1865. Photographers include James Wallace Black and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., as well as H.C. Foster of Charleston, S.C., among many others.

ArchivalResource: 42 photographs in 1 album.

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