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Robert Cumming Schenck

Attribution: Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896
Sitter: Robert Cumming Schenck, 4 Oct 1809 - 23 Mar 1890

Date: c. 1871

Type: Photograph

Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image/Sheet: 15.2 × 10.2 cm (6 × 4"); Mount: 16.5 × 10.7 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/16")

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Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. Drapkin

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: S/NPG.85.121

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery