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Francis Preston Blair Jr.|James Watson Webb|Horace Greeley|Edward Bates|William H. Seward|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Currier & Ives

"The Irrepressible Conflict," or the Republican Barque in Danger

1860
Lithograph
24.5 × 42.3 cm (9.6 × 16.7 in)

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