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Fernando Wood|Louis Maurer|General George B. McClellan|Jefferson Davis|Clement Laird Vallandigham|Currier & Ives

The Chicago Platform and Candidate

1864
Lithograph
24.5 × 39 cm (9.6 × 15.4 in)

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