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Lumpkin & Co. Jefferson Davis

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01257 Author/Creator: Lumpkin & Co. Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Photograph signed Date: 1862 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 10 x 8 cm. Order a Copy

Signed. Apparently a war date photograph of Jefferson Davis. Published by Lumpkin & Co in Richmond, Va.

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

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