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Buttermilk Drinkers CDV, ca. 1864-1866

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Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains a printed image of five soldiers gathered around, pouring and drinking buttermilk from a jar, possibly during or shortly after the American Civil War. The man in the center pours a jug while the others hold their cups of buttermilk. One man appears to drink from a very long straw. The image is copied from a tintype or ambrotype. A two cent stamp on the back of the image partly obscures part of the name of the printing gallery, which starts with "McCabe &", but it...
Dates: ca. 1864-1866