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Originally Posted by prewarsports
Photography gets tricky from that era because it was actually easier to make a photograph from a print than to mass produce a print in many ways.
If an artist makes an engraving or wood cut, there generally is only one way to reproduce it. If a photographer takes a photograph of the engraving, he now has a glass plate he can take back to his studio, send in the mail to a friend or business partner, and he can now make unlimited copies of the engraving. You see this often in the Civil War era and through the 1870's.
It is likely a mounted photograph of an engraving for the purposes of mass production. The mount and paper appear to be vintage to the 1860's or early 1870's.
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Thanks for the thorough answer. Makes sense. Does this item have any value since it looks to date to the original time period but as you said could have been mass produced at that time or is it just a wall hanging?