Content: Typed on mount: "Right: long coat, plumed felt hat, brass shoulder scales of Civil War full dress uniform. Sword peculiar to non-commissioned officers. Left: modified form with 'frogging' of a musician and 'bummer's cap' common to Northern army. Detail: Brass shoulder 'scale' and hat decoration for full dress wear during Civil War."
Content: Written on mount: "Instrument is an 'ophicleide', a sort of huge, keyed, brass bugle popular in the early and mid-1800's."
Source Note: Soldiers of the American army, 1775-1941. (New York H. Bittner and Company 1941) Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973), Illustrator. Todd, Frederick P. , Author.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 print : col. ; 29 x 22.5 cm.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17692028
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 72f6cd90-c539-012f-4ef8-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1941

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Corps d'Afrique, 1864." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1941. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/72f6cd90-c539-012f-4ef8-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1941). Corps d'Afrique, 1864. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/72f6cd90-c539-012f-4ef8-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Corps d'Afrique, 1864." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/72f6cd90-c539-012f-4ef8-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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