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Unknown Carte de visite in civilian dress (bust), signed on image

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01881 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1866 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

Carte-de-visite of Mosby in civilian clothes. With manuscript name on verso, scratched out. Signed on image

Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916

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