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Cabinet card of Gideon Welles

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This cabinet card depicts Gideon Welles on a Mathew Brady mount. Shown from the waist up, he wears a black frock coat and waistcoat over a white shirt. A pocket watch chain T-bar is visible in one buttonhole. There is text at the bottom left corner of the card mount that reads "Brady, Photo, New York." The reverse of the card mount has text that reads "Imperial Carte de Visite, / by/ BRADY/ NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY/ No. 785 Broadway, / New York, / 627 Pennsylvania Avenue, / Washington, / D. C."
Type:
Image
Format:
Albumen And Silver On Photographic Paper On Cardboard
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Brady, Mathew
  4. Civil War
  5. Government
  6. Military
  7. Politics
  8. U.S. History, Civil War, 1861 1865
  9. Welles, Gideon

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