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Mrs. Loretta Velasquez – Vintage Print

Mrs. Loretta Velasquez, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Mrs. Loretta Velasquez, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Mrs. Loretta Velasquez in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Mrs. Loretta Velasquez

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Loretta Velasquez was a Cuban-born woman who said she served in the Confederate army in the Civil War by disguising herself as a man. She later claimed to have worked as a spy, and she told that story in her 1876 memoir, *The Woman in Battle*. The caption card's tags, "Women" and "Spies," point to the attention her account drew, though historians have questioned parts of it. The record gives no date for this drawing or its reproduction, so the exact origin of the image remains uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repro. of drawing. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Women; Spies.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,258 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156371

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