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Manuscripts
This collection of American Civil War related photographs and ephemera provides an insight into the biography of Edwin M. Stanton and the research of the Civil War in the late 1920s to early 1950s. The collection includes a copy of Florence Gratiot Bale's "General Grant's Galena Home" (Waukegan, Illinois, 1929); 12 black-and-white photographs (1950) from the series "Service Cameramen Visit Civil War Shrines" issued by the United States Department of Defense; 14 black-and-white photographs by Wilbur G. Kurtz of the Atlanta campaign; 2 black-and-white photographs (1929) of the site of Jefferson Davis's capture; and 17 black-and-white photographs of Edwin M. Stanton's house in Cadiz, Ohio. Also includes a photostat copy of George B. Todd's letter, which contains an important first-hand account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and unbound binder leaves with 35 black-and-white photographs (1933 to 1935) of the sites of the Lincoln assassination and the trial of conspirators, taken by L. C. Handy and Casson studios.
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Manuscripts
This collection of American Civil War related photographs and ephemera provides an insight into the biography of Edwin M. Stanton and the research of the Civil War in the late 1920s to early 1950s. The collection includes a copy of Florence Gratiot Bale's "General Grant's Galena Home" (Waukegan, Illinois, 1929); 12 black-and-white photographs (1950) from the series "Service Cameramen Visit Civil War Shrines" issued by the United States Department of Defense; 14 black-and-white photographs by Wilbur G. Kurtz of the Atlanta campaign; 2 black-and-white photographs (1929) of the site of Jefferson Davis's capture; and 17 black-and-white photographs of Edwin M. Stanton's house in Cadiz, Ohio. Also includes a photostat copy of George B. Todd's letter, which contains an important first-hand account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and unbound binder leaves with 35 black-and-white photographs (1933 to 1935) of the sites of the Lincoln assassination and the trial of conspirators, taken by L. C. Handy and Casson studios.
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