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Library of Congress Collections: Photographs drawn from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division — including the Liljenquist Family Collection, Civil War Glass Plate Negatives, Andrew J. Russell Photographs, the Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War, Civil War Drawings, and the Gladstone Collection — are generally in the public domain with no known copyright restrictions. The Library of Congress makes no copyright claims on these works. Users are encouraged to verify the rights status of each individual image through the LOC catalog record.
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