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- GLC#
- GLC02382.053-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 September 1884
- Author/Creator
- Gibbon, John, 1827-1896
- Title
- to Henry Jackson Hunt
- Place Written
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 14.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Signed "JG." Describes the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a large painting by Paul D. Philippotteaux, ca. 1882. Mentions, "I send you a rude sketch..." (not included). The first copy, made in Chicago is now (1993) in private hands. The second copy, made for Boston, was transferred to Gettysburg (ca. 1913) where it currently resides under the care of the National Park Service. Copies 3 (Philadelphia) and 4 (Brooklyn) were destroyed.
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