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Benjamin Franklin Butler carte de visite, in uniform

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00919.19 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite Order a Copy

Beach, Elias William, 1841-1921

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