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Elias Dexter [Jefferson Davis]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01442.04 Author/Creator: Elias Dexter Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1861 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

Carte-de-visite size vignette engraved portrait of Jefferson Davis.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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