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[Salt print portrait of Montgomery Dent Corse]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08512 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1862 ca. Pagination: Order a Copy

Medium large oval format photograph. Depicts Dent as three-star General. Verso shows same image, but with ink added to his facial features.

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