Sepia portrait of a seated, mustached man in a buttoned military uniform with shoulder straps and a sword, in an arched frame on an ornate card mount.

Simon Bolivar Buckner

A seated man with a mustache wears a dark military-style uniform with a buttoned front, shoulder straps, and a sword hilt at his side, hands resting on his lap. He is posed before a draped, patterned backdrop in a sepia albumen print, mounted within an arched window on an ornate card border.

Artist: Unidentified Artist
Date: c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)
Medium: Albumen silver print
Source: Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
Size: 3288 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (undated).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery

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