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John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865)

Cartes de visite, such as this one of actor John Wilkes Booth, were popular and inexpensive souvenirs distributed by the actors themselves and collected by admirers at the time of the Civil War.


Charles DeForest Fredricks (1823–1894)
Albumen silver print, circa 1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 
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