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Wolff's Gallery As chaplain, vignette bust portrait

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0919 Author/Creator: Wolff's Gallery Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 9.7 cm, Width: 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Ink inscription on verso "Rev. Wm. A. Houck Chaplian [sic] 205th Regt. P.V." Photographers imprint on verso: "Wolff's Gallery No. 10 Royal Street, Alexandria, Va. Opperman, Photographer. Additional Copies from the plate from which this picture is taken can be had if desired."

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