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ЛОТ 17:
TWO CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPHS of Confederate ...
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TWO CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPHS of Confederate diplomat Edwin de Leon, and his wife Ellen Mary Novian.
Standing views in studio. The photographs were taken in the elegant studio of Mayer and Pierson, Paris. Their imprint appears in embossed lettering below the images. The photographs remain in their original album page. Both subjects are identified in period ink.
A successful journalist and newspaper editor Edwin de Leon (1818-91) was a member of a prominent Sephardic family from South Carolina. Upon the establishment of the Confederate States he met with President Jefferson Davis to offer his services. Davis sent him to Europe as a diplomat to persuade England and France to formally recognize the Confederacy and gain their support in the Civil War. De Leon personally met with Lord Palmerston and Emperor Louis Napoleon to no avail.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_de_Leon.
