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A. A. Turner, Photographer [N. Lyon, Brig. Gen'l]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06447.01 Author/Creator: A. A. Turner, Photographer Place Written: New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861 May 17 Pagination: 1 salt print ; 24.1 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

Full length portrait of Nathaniel Lyon in uniform as Brigadier General. Signed on mount. Handsome image. Inscription on verso reads "conn - 10 Aug 1861." Accompanied by a carte de visite of the same image (GLC06447.02).

See "Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865," p. 592. And "A.A. Turner, American photolithographer" (1986), vol. 10, issue 3.

Lyon, Nathaniel, 1818-1861

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