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Salm Salm Vignete bust portrait, as colonel

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0679 Author/Creator: Salm Salm Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10.1 cm, Width: 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Graphite inscription on verso "Salm-Salm" "Salm-Salm." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery." Photographers imprint on label on verso "From Geo. S. Tolman Fancy Goods Warehouse 255 Washington St. Boston."

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