White House Plantation
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1312 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1862/05/17 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 6 cm, Width: 9.8 cm Order a Copy
Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of..." Graphite inscription on verso "Burned 6/1862" "1.75--." Photographers imprint on verso: "Brady's Album Gallery. No. 384. White House, Formerly residence of Mrs. Custis Washington, now the residence of Col. Lee. 17th May, 1862. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will be at once instituted against any party infringing the copyright."
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