File:Geo. Evans Chief (...) LCCN2016828096.jpg

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• Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves.
• Date from negatives in same range.
• Caption from caption list: George Evans, Chief Disbursing Clerk of the Interior Department has been employed in the Interior continuously for fifty six years. In 1864 at the age of 14 Evans was a drummer boy in the Union Army. At Gettysburg he met Abraham Lincoln who took an interest in the boy and brought him back to Washington appointing him as a messenger in the Interior Department. Evans now holds one of the most responsible positions in the Department.
• Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
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• This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
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