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- Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, circa 1860 - Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, posed for this carte-de-visite in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 1860. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- circa 1860
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Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, circa 1860
Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, posed for this carte-de-visite in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 1860. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected portrait cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.