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Unknown Carte de visite [Unidentified]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06272.05 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: [Terra-Haute, Ind.] Type: Photograph Date: [1861] Pagination: 10 cm. x 6.1 cm. White mount with gold border. Order a Copy

Illegible photographer's stamp and two red one-cent tax stamps on verso. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

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