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Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 Salt print portrait of Pierce, oval, mounted on lined paper

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05247 Author/Creator: Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1850 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 39 cm, Width: 25 cm Order a Copy

Depicts as a middle-aged man with a little gray hair at the side-burns. The photograph is mounted on lined paper which has slightly cockled. (Actual image size: 19 x13.5 cm) (Per Peter Mustardo, this appears to be a copy of a daguerreotype from the National Portrait Gallery.)

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