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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Albumen print of Lincoln & McClellan at Antietam [published by Gardner]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00591 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1892 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 27 cm, Width: 17 cm Order a Copy

Print by Moses Rice, 1892. Reproduction from a negative by Alexander Gardner, 1862. Cf. Ostendorf 66.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
McClellan, George B., 1826-1885

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