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Collection Reference Number GLC03016
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 
Title Endorsed check from Gideon Welles
Date 21 December 1868
Author Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Printed check for $40 signed by Welles to "G" on recto and endorsed by Gardner on verso. With two cent Revenue stamp, drawn on Riggs & Co. Stamped paid on verso by the Nat'l Bank of the Republic, Washington, D.C.
Subjects Finance  American Statesmen  Photography  
People Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)  Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Banking & Economics
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Gardner worked as an assistant to Civil War photographer Mathew Brady until 1862. In 1866 he published Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, the first published collection of Civil War photographs.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945