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Remembering the African American Soldiers of the 9th U.S. Volunteer Infantry

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Jonathan Eaker, Reference Librarian, Prints & Photographs Division. Recently while going through some military photos in our collection I came across a set of twelve undigitized group portraits showing African American soldiers at the time of the Spanish American War. The photos launched me on research about a …