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Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 [Carte de visite of Thomas E.G. Ransom]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02136.25 Author/Creator: Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 Place Written: New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

Signed on mount. 3/4 length, sitting.

Ransom, Thomas Edwin Greenfield, 1834-1864

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