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Photographs were often tucked into a letter, but this one was simply addressed as a small envelope would be and mailed. With both photographer and postal handstamps, it is franked with a 2¢ Jackson, cork-canceled at Ripon, Wisconsin for city delivery. The Ripon studio's handstamp marking is dated August 5, 1866, four days after the photograph tax was eliminated. ex Joseph F. Rorke