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Often unmarked Cartes de Visite can be identified by the unique backdrops used by different photographers. Below are several examples, taken from our roundup that appeared in the March/April 2003 issue.

A company-grade officer in the 55th Pennsylvania photographed by Samuel A. Cooley in Beauford, North Carolina.

Private George Steven, 8th New Hampshire Infantry photographed by Billings & Hough, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

A hospital steward photographed by Dr. J.W. Ewing, Market and 2nd Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

First Lieutenant Henri B. Loomis, adjutant of the 56th New York, photographed by Samuel Cooley, then army photographer to the X Corps, in South Carolina.

Foreign photographers also used backdrops. This lance corporal in the British Army's 63rd Regiment of Foot was photographed by Smith & Edy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

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