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Old Abe Collector Card
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Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, 1865 or 1870. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this bird's fame. Old Abe is perched on a shield with the American stars and stripes painted on it. Card published by Alfred L. Sewell, Dunlap, Sewell & Spaulding, Chicago, from a photograph made in March, 1865.
March 1865
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W013IZJ
WHi 79113
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Old Abe Collector Card
1865
Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this bird's fame. Card features Old Abe perched on a shield...
Old Abe Collector Card
1865
Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this bird's fame. Old Abe is perched on a cannon with an Am...
Young Old Abe
1861
Carte-de-visite of Old Abe, the Wisconsin war eagle on a perch. The adolescent bird still has partially brown head feathers. The card appears to have a souvenir feather attached to the back.
Taxidermied Old Abe on a Perch
1900
Side view of "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. After his death in 1881, he was stuffed, mounted, and placed in the Capitol museum. The shield he is perched ...
Old Abe
circa 1860-1869
Print of a painted portrait of Old Abe, bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment of the Wisconsin Civil Volunteer Infantry, standing on a perch. "Old Abe" is written at the bottom.
Old Abe Perched on a Cannon
May 23, 1865
Chromolithograph portrait of "Old Abe," eagle mascot of Company C, 8th Wisconsin Regiment (the Eau Claire Eagles). Old Abe is perched on a cannon with his head to the right. At the bottom of the im...
