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Colonel Renshaw, bust portrait. [maquettte] [salt print] [1861-1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0585 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph 19.7 x 24.8 cm Order a Copy

The image has been touched up [painted] for rephotographing. Inscription on verso: "Renshaw" and "Renshaw." Notation: "4 negs." From Meserve Collection.

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