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Weeks, Edward.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04506.56 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: [1861-1865] Pagination: carte de visite, : White mount with gold rule border. Height: 10 cm, Width: 6 cm Order a Copy

Verso contains ink signature of Weeks and pencil inscription in another hand: "Edward D. Weeks, Age 18, Co. M, 7 Iowa Cavalry, Nativity- Ohio." Half length seated portrait in uniform.

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