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Unbound. Condition: Fair. Gelatin silver cabinet card. Image size is 8.5" x 7" on a 10" x 8" cardboard mount. Toning and scattered foxing on the photographic image, but complete and intact; the mount is poor with substantial chips at the extremities, and old repairs on the verso, mostly archival tape (replacing older and now mostly removed cello tape). There are a few tiny pencil notes on the verso as well. The damage to the mount does not effect the image. The image shows the large two-story building with a sign: "The County Gazette" on the second floor; with about 20 people posed, mostly on the covered porch, a few on the roof, and one peering out of a window. [With]: partially printed receipt from The Cape May County Weekly Gazette executed in pencil and signed and dated in 1881 by the newspaper's founder Alfred Cooper. Old, faint tape repair on the receipt, about very good. The newspaper was founded in 1880; this building burned in 1905. The newspaper continued on through a variety of mergers and name changes. An identical copy of this image is held at the Cape May County Historical Museum. For the two pieces.