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Isaiah Rynders|George Hunt Pendleton|Fernando Wood|Andrew Johnson|Currier & Ives|Joseph Brooks|John Cameron|Horatio Seymour|John Thompson Hoffman|Charles G. Halpine|Winfield Scott Hancock

The Democracy in Search of a Candidate

1868
Lithograph
21.8 × 37 cm (8.6 × 14.6 in)

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