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Unknown [Reuben Eaton Fenton]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06920 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1867 ca. Pagination: 1 album page (2 albumens [one front, one back]) ; 25.1 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

Albumen oval half-length portrait as Governor of New York. Signed in pencil. Apparently removed from an album; with a portrait of an unidentified man adhered on verso.

Fenton, Reuben Eaton, 1819-1885

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