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Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 Carte de visite bust view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0102 Author/Creator: Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1862 ca. Pagination: 1 vignette Height: 10.1 cm, Width: 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Ink inscription on recto "Edwin M. Stanton." Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

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