Historical Indulgences

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of Tom Coughlan sitting within a studio prop window], Charles Lake Cramer

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

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