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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) [Presidential note and photograph] [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00206 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Header Record Date: 01 July 1862 Pagination: 1 note + Ph 20 x 16 cm Order a Copy

Notes: Basler 5: 300, basing the text on a Parke-Bernet catalog. Basler notes that "Johnson has not been further identified, but he was presumably from Senator Lazarus W. Powell's state, Kentucky."

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

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