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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

U.S. Army officer's ostrich-plume dress hat

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Content From the Collection:

Personal effects, chiefly post-Civil War, late nineteenth-century U.S. Army regalia. Military attire includes Almon Libbey Varney's U.S. Army officer's kepi, sash, shoulder boards, and dress epaulettes. The collection also includes military certificates, printed War Department material, biographical and genealogical information concerning Varney. His Bowdoin college diplomas are filed in A01.03.02.

Dates: 1865-1904, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / Almon Libbey Varney U.S. Army regalia

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