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Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887 Samuel F. B. Morse

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04480.02 Author/Creator: Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Engraving Date: 1872 Pagination: 1 engraving : b&w Height: 27.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

Engraving of Morse seated, with hand laid on a book on a table. Depicted with full white beard and glasses. Marked, "Likeness from the last approved photograph from life." Published by Johnson, Wilson & Co. Publishers, New York.

Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

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