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1860s leather album with 61 photos, mostly all CDVs and a handful of tintypes. These included families from a Lancaster County, Pennsylvanian Quaker community. Most are identified, including the soldier(s). Saw some Civil War tax stamps. Pennsylvania and Ohio cities, but did not check every photo.
The identified soldier was Joseph Parke Hunter, 1834-1864, son of Alexander Hunter and Mary Parke. Sergeant in Company C Pa. 5th Calvary in the Civil War. He was captured at the last siege of Richmond. Sgt Hunter, was imprisoned in Andersonville where he was confined for several months and and one account says he died there. But another account states that after several months, sick and emaciated — a mere skeleton of his former self — he was removed to the hospital at Florence, where he died Oct. 4, 1864.
The photo of Ann Gilbert (Deborah Anna Hunter Gilbert) shows her dressed in mourning for her brother Joseph.
(Source for above: History of York County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2, page 773)
The CDVs I did check where slightly cropped at the corners but are still about 4" x 2.5" each. The album is in fair condition, mostly because some of the pages are detached from the spine.
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Boxed & signed shipping.
