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James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge

"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother

1860
Lithograph
23.5 × 40.7 cm (9.3 × 16 in)

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