R.H. Kimball & Company (photographers)

This sepia carte de visite, ca. 1861-1865, depicts an unidentified soldier who served in the Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The carte de visite was produced by R.H. Kimball & Company of Leavenworth, Kansas. Carte de visites were small photographs that were often used as calling cards and became very popular during the Civil War.

Picturing the War
Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Kansas military units

R.H. Kimball & Company (photographers)

Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth County, Kansas

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Kansas Historical Society

Civil War Photographs (Volunteer, Kansas Regiments), Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, E495 K2.CAV11 *1-19

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