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Mr. Curtin, 3/4 length seated portrait. [salt print]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0594 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 photograph 21 x 26.7 cm Order a Copy

Curtin is dressed in civilian clothes and seated with his legs crossed and hands together. The image has been touched up [painted] for rephotographing. Inscription on verso: "Curtin." From the Meserve Collection.

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