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Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady. [word processed inventory available]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04609 Author/Creator: Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 Place Written: Various Places Type: Photograph Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 200 photographs + album 26.8 x 20.8 cm Order a Copy

Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, emancipated people, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages removed from album 6/97 and boxed as album pages. 50 pages with four cartes per page, most labeled in a contemporary hand (and sometimes humorously, as in Jefferson Davis). Another copy of the New Orleans freed slaves is in GLB 75.

Brady, Mathew B., 1822-1896

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