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Robert Cumming Schenck Carte-de-visite

Carte-de-visite with a black and white photograph of Robert Cumming Schenck, head and shoulders, wearing a military uniform, signed/tiles/collection/4/46987.xml
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Carte-de-visite with a black and white photograph of Robert Cumming Schenck, head and shoulders, wearing a military uniform, signed
Reverse of carte-de-visite with maker’s stamp
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Date

ca. 1865

Artist

Robert W. Addis; McClees Gallery

Dimensions

4 3/16 × 2 5/16 in. (10.6 × 5.9 cm)

Accession Number

2006.117.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

General Robert Cumming Schenck had multiple reasons to distribute this carte-de-visite to his acquaintances. He was a congressman, an ambassador and by the time this card was made, a military man. During the Civil War he rose to the rank of Major General, but resigned his commission to take his seat as a Member of the 38th Congress, fully twenty years after his first service in the House began.

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