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Philp & Solomons' Metropolitan Gallery Vignette bust portrait Charles S. Lovell used as a receipt for photographs

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0689 Author/Creator: Philp & Solomons' Metropolitan Gallery Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite 9.8 x 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Red ink inscription on recto "5 as 1. Lt Col. C. S. Lovell to pay $5.00." Ink inscription on recto "1 Dz cards paid for & Deld. Apl. 15/64." Photographers imprint on verso: "Philp & Solomons' Metropolitan Gallery 332 Penna Avenue Washington D.C."

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