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English: Text from below the photo: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."
"Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette," black-and-white photograph on carte de visite mount, by the American photographer Mathew Brady. 'Contrabands' was an expression coined by General Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves. Image courtesy of Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date circa 1862
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University [1]
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Mathew Benjamin Brady  (1822–1896)  wikidata:Q187850 q:pl:Mathew B. Brady
 
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Description American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 18 May 1822 Edit this at Wikidata 15 January 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York Edit this at Wikidata Manhattan Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1844 until circa 1887
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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