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Portrait photo of General Jubal Early [cabinet card]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1344 Author/Creator: Place Written: Christiansburg, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: August 1893 Pagination: 1 photograph 16.5 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

The image shows General Jubal Early seated with his hat between his knees in front of a porch. Inscription on recto: "Darnell Photographer Radford, VA." Inscriptions on verso: "Genl. Jubal A. Early taken at the Yellow Sulphur August 1893" and "Courtesy Ridgway Holt pwpr[?]." Picture taken at Yellow Sulphur Springs Resort.

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