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Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 [Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01320.01 Author/Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Photograph Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10 cm, Width: 6.5 cm Order a Copy

Standing portrait of General Grant, taken in the spring of 1865. Grant is wearing a black mourning band on his left arm in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln, who had recently been assassinated. Framed along with clipped signature of Grant's, GLC01320.02, in a frame 32 x 21 cm.

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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