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Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 [Signed carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07338 Author/Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 Place Written: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Type: Photograph signed Date: April 1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10.1 cm, Width: 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Signed photograph of Grant as Lt. General, taken by Frederick Gutekunst. Standing portrait of General Grant with his left hand in his vest, taken in the spring of 1865. Grant is wearing a black mourning band on his left arm in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln, who had recently been assassinated. Verso contains docket with autograph note signed by J. Harper and plate of Pittsburgh bookseller. Harper's note states that he got the autograph from Grant himself, and is giving it to a friend, Mrs. Chuffat. Same photograph as GLC01320.01.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917
Harper, I., fl. 1865

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