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Description Winfield Scott Hancock. Library of Congress description: "Hancock, Gen. W.S., USA"
Date between 1860 and 1870
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03259. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH8266- 1464 <P&P>[P&P]
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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 Manhattan
Work period from 1844 until circa 1887
date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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creator QS:P170,Q187850
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under the digital ID cwpbh.03259.
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Deutsch: Winfield Scott Hancock (* 14. Februar 1824 in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania; † 9. Februar 1886 auf Governors Island, New York City) war ein General der Unionsarmee im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Benannt wurde er nach dem berühmten General Winfield Scott.
English: Winfield Scott Hancock ( February 14, 1824February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer who served with distinction as a Union general in the American Civil War, noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Hancock ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in 1880. He was known to Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb."

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Public domain This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).

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current02:59, 12 February 2011Thumbnail for version as of 02:59, 12 February 20112,760 × 3,048 (2.17 MB)W Nowicki (talk | contribs)Start from the highest resolution scan of the negative and repair much damage. Someone can always go to the original and do a more professional job.
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