[CIVIL WAR]. Two CDVs, incl. "The Soldier's Children." Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor, ca 1863, sold to benefit the fatherless children of the Civil War.

CDV of three young children, elsewhere alternatively titled "Children of the Battlefield." Captioned and credited on recto and/or verso. Verso caption explains that this portrait was copied from the an ambrotype found in the hands of the dead Sgt. Humiston, 154th NY at Gettysburg. The popular likenesses of Frank, Frederick & Alice were widely sold to benefit the fatherless children in an enduring act of wartime charity.

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[CIVIL WAR]. Two CDVs, incl. "The Soldier's Children." Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor, ca 1863, sold to benefit the fatherless children of the Civil War.

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[CIVIL WAR]. Two CDVs, incl. "The Soldier's Children." Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor, ca 1863, sold to benefit the fatherless children of the Civil War.

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[CIVIL WAR]. Two CDVs, incl. "The Soldier's Children." Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor, ca 1863, sold to benefit the fatherless children of the Civil War.