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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0478-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- May 1867
- Author/Creator
- Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
- Title
- [Collodion glass plate negative of Robert E. Lee].
- Pagination
- 1 glass negative Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Shows Robert E. Lee as an older man in dark civilian clothing, seated in a room with an old mantel clock. The clock appears to have been insribed with "M.B. Brady, Washington, D.C." Marked in negative: "R.E. Lee." The numbers 1318 and 554 also appear on the plate. Loss at upper edge that does not affect the portrait.
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