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Unknown [Ticket for "The War for the Union"]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06452.05.07 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Ephemera Date: circa 1864 Pagination: 2 p. ; 6 x 10.1 cm. Order a Copy

Admits one school scholar to "Brady & Gardner's Gorgeous Tableaux of 'The War for the Union,' " (a photography exhibition compiled by noted Civil War photographers Alexander Gardner and Mathew Brady). Contains positive quotations reviewing the exhibition offered by Generals George(sic) A. Butterfield and Nathaniel Prentiss Banks.

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Butterfield, G. A., fl. 1864
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

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