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Absalom Baird, albumen silver print,

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Image/Sheet: 8.4 x 5.5 cm (3 5/16 x 2 3/16")
Mount: 9.8 x 6 cm (3 7/8 x 2 3/8")
Date circa 1866
date QS:P,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, S/NPG.79.246.16
Author Probably[1] the Webster Brothers/Webster & Bro, Louisville[2] Restored by Adam Cuerden
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  1. ↑ this image is by the Webster Brothers, and is clearly from the same photo shoot
  2. ↑ Per [1], this is Edward Z. Webster (c. 1821 - ?) and Israel B. Webster (1826 - ? )

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