Trending: Photos of the Last Living Soldiers from the Revolutionary War
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and in the ensuing eight years some 230,000 Americans served in the Continental Army during the war for independence. At that time, photography had not been invented, but in 1864, Nelson and Roswell Moore, two brothers living in Connecticut, decided to track down and photograph the alleged last living soldiers from the Revolutionary War, each of them over 100 years old. The Moore brothers captured their portraits as cartes de visite. But as it turned out, the soldiers weren't quite the last living men from the Revolution.
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My photo of works in Central Park at Cherry Hill made with Contax/Zeiss 1.4 lens and Fujicolor 400 ...

