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Hoyt Ulysses S. Grant Carte de visite

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07808.033 Author/Creator: Hoyt Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 10.5 x 6.3 cm. Order a Copy

White mount with imprint of G.W. Thorne, New York, below image on recto. Imprint of Hoyt visible on lower left corner of image. Verso contains imprint of Hoyt and pencil notations: "U.S. Grant," "9040-2," "3000," "3238," and "1272." Half length seated bust portrait in civilian dress.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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