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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Vignette bust portrait of Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0077 Author/Creator: Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1861 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite 10 x 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Imprint on recto "Brady & Co. Washington." Graphite notation on verso "[struck] Chief Judge Chase" "S.P. Chase Secty of Treas 1861 to 1864." Photographers imprint on verso: "M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries No. 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C. & New York." Cancelled Blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

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