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Salt print (?) 1/2 length portrait, in civilian clothing [trimmed and remounted]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05786.15 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1862-1863 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 20 x 15 cm Order a Copy

Mahone, William. Photograph trimmed and mounted on card. Ink inscription on mount: "Wm Mahone, Va."

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