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containing the portraits of three small children … two boys and a girl ... nine, seven and five years of age, the boys being respectively the oldest and youngest of the three. The youngest boy is sitting in a high chair, and on each side of him are his brother and sister. The eldest boy's jacket is
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copy of the ambrotype. Bourns took the original image to Humiston's widow.
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God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War True Stories about Real People
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Revised Report Made to the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
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Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America
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