Unknown [Bachelder as old man and his wife posed before boulders]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02673.37 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: no date Pagination: 1 photograph: b&w ; 26.2 x 21.2 cm. Order a Copy
Taken before 1892. Number 498
Bachelder was an artist, historian, and printmaker fascinated with the Battle of Gettysburg. He was selected by Congress to be the battle's official historian.
Photographs of Bachelder family members and their homes. Includes two images of John B. Bachelder (one a stereocard), two of Bachelder's home in New Hampshire, and some individual and group portraits of Bachelder and Stevens family members. Many of the portraits are identified by a (slightly) later hand signing itself "M.C.B."
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