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Album of 20 cartes de visite plus 6 of Lincoln and his cabinet

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03589 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 26 photographs Order a Copy

Cartes de visite by Brady, Anthony, Barr & Young, and J. Carbutt. Includes Lincoln's cabinet: Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, William H. Seward, Edwin Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin Bates, Gideon Welles, Montgomery Blair (Postmaster Gen.), Caleb B. Smith (Interior), Stephen A. Douglas, Edward Everett, Horace Greeley, Richard J. Ogelsby (Illinois Gov.), Gen. Joseph Hooker, Gen. George B. McClellan, Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, Gen. William S. Rosecrans, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gen. John A. Logan, Gen. William T. Sherman. The album was assembled in the 1920s by Illinois rare book dealer Edward T. Van Norman.

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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