Exceptional 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee wearing his three-star military uniform, signed in black ink, “R. E. Lee, Genl.” In very good condition, with mounting residue on the reverse, scattered staining, and the signature quite faded but fully legible.
Accompanied by mimeographed photocopies of an 1867 letter from Lee sent to Bessie Johnston Gresham, sending her the offered signed photograph, as well as a CD-R disc containing a ‘Civil War CDV Study / Reference Book’ containing Gresham’s carte-de-visite photo album, which included this Lee-signed CDV.
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