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- GLC#
- GLC05111.02.0088-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1861-1865
- Author/Creator
- Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869
- Title
- Vignette bust view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of the Treasury, 1864
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 carte de visite Height: 10 cm, Width: 6.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Ink signature on recto "W.P. Fessenden Me." Ink inscription on image "18." Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress by M.B. Brady & Co. in the year 1865 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "Fessenden Maine." Photographers imprint on verso: "M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries No. 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C. & New York." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.
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