Barbara Frietchie "'Strike if you will, this old gray head. But spare your Country's Flag,' she said" M.B. Brady & Co., National Photographic Portrait Galleries, No. 352 Pennsylvania Av., Washington, D.C. & New York

Photograph shows portrait Barbara Fritchie, patriotic heroine of an 1863 poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)
Purchased from: Bob Lucas, June 2016.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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