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[Daguerreotype bust portrait of man with sideburns, elegantly dressed]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04196.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: circa 1860s Pagination: 1 daguerreotype ; 12 x 9.3 cm. Order a Copy

Apparently a friend or relative of John B. Moore with a poetic inscription pasted into the back of the case (between the daguerreotype and the back): "To Dr Moore / No never shall my soul forget/ The friend I found so cordial hearted / Dear Dear shall be the day we met / And dear shall be the day we parted."

John B. Moore was an army surgeon during the Civil War and later was named the U.S. Surgeon General.

To Dr Moore
No never shall my soul forget
The friend I found so cordial hearted
Dear dear shall be the day we met
And dear shall be the day we parted.

Moore, John B., 1826-1907

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