Rare CDV of Kit Carson and Edwin Perrin Children in literature National Art Library

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Rare CDV of Kit Carson and Edwin Perrin Children in literature National Art Library(Wild West) RARE CDV OF KIT CARSON AND EDWIN PERRIN. New York: E. & H. T. Anthony, [1862]. 4" x 2 3 8". EXCEEDINGLY RARE carte de visite, or CDV, of Kit Carson, at left in his Army frock coat and Edwin Perrin, seated with cane; taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico in January 1862. At the time of this photo, Carson was a colonel in the Union Army and the leader of the 1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. Perrin was a government expediter, sent to New Mexico