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Louis Lucien Pessou

1824–1886

United States

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Louis Lucien Pessou (May 14, 1824 – December 18, 1886) was an American lithographer, and "free man of color" in New Orleans, Louisiana. He co-owned the press Pessou & Simon (1853–1867), and Pessou & Krauss (1868).

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