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[Print of John Slidell]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05342.02 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Print Date: 30 November 1861 Pagination: 1 print : b&w Height: 11.5 cm, Width: 15.3 cm Order a Copy

Print of John Slidell, clipped from Harper's Weekly. The print was based on a photograph. The caption under the print states: "The captured rebel commissioner Slidell." Photographed by "Brady." The verso of the newspaper is part of "A Strange Story" by Edward Bulwer Lytton, which ran in Harper's Weekly.

Slidell, John, 1793-1871
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

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