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[Louis Bernkopf, carte de visite]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00919.24.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 10.9 x 7.1 cm. Order a Copy

White mount. Ink inscription on verso: "Louis Bernkopf aus Camenz [Kamenz], Preuss[…?] Sohle[?]ien, [G]ermany." Ink inscription on recto: "Louis Bernkopf." Three quarter length seated portrait in 15th N.Y.S. Vols. Uniform holding a book in one hand, and a pencil in the other.

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