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File:An everyday soldier's garb and possessions inside a cabin at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and LCCN2015634111.tif

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English: Title: An everyday soldier's garb and possessions inside a cabin at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the transcontinental telegraph trail corridor in Casper, Wyoming

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; The original Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army, named after Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army lieutenant who was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians. Originally founded in 1859 as a trading post and toll bridge on the Oregon Trail, the post was later taken over by the Army and named Platte Bridge Station to protect emigrants and the telegraph line against Indian raids. The site of the fort is now owned and operated by the City of Casper as the Fort Caspar Museum and Historic Site.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).; Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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Camera location42° 50′ 12.66″ N, 106° 22′ 18.29″ W  Heading=104° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Public domain This work is from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
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