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Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 Duc de Chartres, Prince de Joinville, Louis-Phillippe-Albert d'Orleans, comte de Paris

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06388 Author/Creator: Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896 Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1862 May 3 Pagination: 2 carte de visites Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm Order a Copy

By the Brady album gallery. Photographs taken during the battle of Yorktown. Two cartes inserted into a detached album page with identifying notes adhered next to the photographs. The first photograph has five people; the second photograph has sixteen people, plus servant, identified by two scribbled notes.

D'Orléans, Louis-Philippe-Albert, comte de Paris, 1838-1894

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