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Currier & Ives|Jefferson Davis|Ulysses S. Grant

Why Don't You Take It?

1861–64
Lithograph
34 × 45.4 cm (13.4 × 17.9 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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