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Title
Portrait of General Winfield Scott Hancock
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of General Winfield Scott Hancock, [s.d.]. General Hancock is shown standing from his knees to his head and is turned to the right. His right hand can be seen stuck in his coat Napoleon-style. He is wearing a long, double-breasted military jacket with a single-starred shoulder insignia indicating the rank of brigadier general. He has short dark hair parted at left and a dark goatee and mustache. Hancock served in the Union Army during the Civil War, distinguished himself at Gettysburg, and ran unsuccessfully for president in 1880.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19824
USC-1-1-1-13840 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11545
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19824
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11545.jpg
Subject
Hancock, Gen. Winfield Scott
Men
Portraits--Ha
Place
California
USA
Source
11545 [Accession number]
CHS-11545 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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