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English: Image of eagle roosting on an image of a shield with stars and stripes. Description of image and explanation of purpose. These cartes de viste were sold for the benefit of the 1865 Great Sanitary Fair in Chicago. Old Abe was an eagle mascot carried by the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which belonged to the Iron Brigade.
Title: "Old Abe" (Illustration of an American Eagle on a shield).
Date between 1861 and 1865
date QS:P,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Missouri History Museum
URL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/0D9FF7F5-A6E3-9BCF-1FAC-5B1752650862//original.jpg
Gallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/158743
Author Dunlop, Sewell, and Spalding Chicago
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Civil War, 1861-1865
Old Abe
Eagles
chromolithograph
8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (1864 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Mascots
Iron Brigade
Birds
shield
Armed Forces
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158743

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