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Posted By: leonl

It is definitely not a picture.....and more photo engravings were used after the Civil War than woodcuts so this is more than likely a copy of a photo engraving, or something like that..it has larger ink areas which lead me to believe it could be an engraving too...since woodcuts had the white areas cut out with a tool they were more wide and cross hatching was used to make the more solid areas..Woodcut plates were cut along the grain of soft wood and engravings were done on harder wood giving the harder wood "engravings" finer lines too..I think this is an engraving type pic..... I could be wrong on this but I think that is what it is..................regards all