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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Emancipation.
Carte-de-visite.
Np, circa 1863
[300/500]
A carte-de-visite almost identical to this one has been identified as being a photograph of a
painting by Nantucket portrait painter George Gardner Fish (1822-1906).
RARE
RARE RACIST ANTI-LINCOLN
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(MILITARY.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Niggers In Convention. Sumner’s
Speech.
Broadside, 9 x 5 inches, consisting of three quatrains, within a double rule border,
printed on yellow paper.
[Baltimore, circa 1863]
[1,500/2,500]
A rather strange and mean-spirited song-sheet, written in dialect, most probably referring to a
speech given by Charles Sumner in the summer of 1862 in favor of arming Negro troops.
RARE
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OCLC LOCATING ONLY FIVE COPIES
:
Brown, Wake Forrest, UVA, N.Y. Historical,
and AAS. Edwin Wolf. American Song Sheets, C117; E.L. Rudolph: Confederate broadside
verse, 18.
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