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Warren Post Office Block [Carte de visite of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02136.14 Author/Creator: Warren Post Office Block Place Written: Cambridgeport, Massachusetts Type: Photograph signed Date: 1865 November 11 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

Inscribed by Banks to L. J. Cist (see GLC 749 Lincoln ALS to same for the Mississippi Sanitary Commission). Dated in another hand from the same time. With two cents revenue stamp on verso.

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

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