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Sarony, Napoleon (1821-1896) [Cabinet Card photograph of Thomas Nast]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07364 Author/Creator: Sarony, Napoleon (1821-1896) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 8 July 1872 Pagination: 1 cabinet card ; 16.6 x 10.8 cm. Order a Copy

Three-quarter length oval portrait of Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast. Signed and dated on the mount. Remnant tax stamp on verso.

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
Sarony, Major & Knapp (lithographers)
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902

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