Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

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Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.)
Date: 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1956
Accession no.: 56.517.3

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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000511
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Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000512
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Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000513
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Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000514

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