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c. 1860s Civil War PA. Governor ANDREW GREGG CURTIN Signed Carte de Visite

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c. 1860s Civil War PA. Governor ANDREW GREGG CURTIN Signed Carte de Visite
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PA. Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin Signed Carte de Visite
ANDREW GREGG CURTIN (1815-1894). U.S. Lawyer and Politician, Served as the Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania.
c. 1860s Civil War Period Carte de Visite Signed, “A.G. Curtin”, below his image on the face side, measuring 2.5” x 4”, Fine. CDV shows Governor Curtain sitting at table in coat and vest. Excellent contrast and tonality. Back stamp of “Henszey & Co., Photographers, 812 Arch Street, Philadelphia. / Duplicates furnished at any time by sending name, and number of Negative. / No.____”. A Very Rare example being a Signed CDV Photograph as the Sanders price guide doesn’t even list a record for value under “Signed Photo.”
Andrew Gregg Curtin (1815/1817 – October 7, 1894) In the 1860 presidential election, Curtin helped Abraham Lincoln win the Republican nomination. Curtin was a strong supporter of President Lincoln's policies in the Civil War, and Curtin committed Pennsylvania to the war effort.

Curtin organized the Pennsylvania Reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia. It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300,000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, visiting the White House several times in order to converse about the status of the war effort.