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Unknown [John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, three-quarter length view]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05136.24 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: no date Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11.1 x 7.4 cm. Order a Copy

White mount with red border. Seated, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing one glove and holding the other. Similar to images 26, 28, and 29.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

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