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  • Robert E. Lee pledges to support the Constitution & the freedom of slaves...
    Item #708724
    NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1865  Near the top of the front page: "Gen. Lee Takes the Amnesty Oath" which includes the complete printing of the document in which he pledges to support the Constitution of the United States & support all laws regarding the emancipation of slaves, signed in type: R. E.... Read full description  

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  • The first "fixed" baseball game...  Andersonville Prison warden...
    Item #708715
    NEW YORK TIMES, Sept.  29, 1865  

    * Brooklyn Eckfords vs. New York Mutuals
    * First documented fixed baseball game 

    The back page under "Out-Door Sports" "The National Game" has the summary and box score of a game between the Mutual and Eckford clubs, won by the Eckfords, 23-11. The summary mentions in part: ... Read full description  
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  • Trial of Wirz, Andersonville Prison...   Reconstruction in the South...
    Item #708699
    NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 2, 1865  Much reporting on Reconstruction efforts in the South. The front page has: "THE SOUTH AS IT IS" "A View of the Battle-Field of Stone River" "Operations of the Freedmen's Bureau" "Visit to the Home of General Andrew Jackson" "Atlanta & What There is Left of It".
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  • Trial of Lincoln's conspirators, from the city where it happened...
    Item #708697
    DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., June 14, 1865

    * Trial of the conspirators - assassins
    * re. Abraham Lincoln's assassination

    The top of the front page has: "THE CONSPIRACY" "TRIAL OF THE ACCUSED" "Proceedings Of Monday, June 12". Three columns are taken up with verbatim questions and answers.
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  • Susan B. Anthony charged with illegal voting...
    Item #708644
    NEW YORK TIMES, June 22, 1873  

    * Susan B. Anthony indicted for voting

    A bottom corner of the front page has a small and discrete report headed: "The Case of Miss Susan B. Anthony--Prosecution Suspended" which is a brief mention of her recent indictment for illegal voting.
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  • Trial of Captain Henry Wirz: Andersonville prison warden...
    Item #708590
    NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 31, 1865  

    * Andersonville Prison - Camp Sumter
    * Captain Henry Wirz trial - Georgia

    The front page has much on the trial of Captain Wirz. Wirz was a Confederate Army officer during the Civil War. He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia where... Read full description  
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  • Masonic Hall opening in NYC...
    Item #708524
    THE WORLD, New York City, June 2, 1875

    * Original Masonic Hall (Manhattan) opening ceremonies
    * Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of New York


    The top of the front page has a one column heading: "THE MASONIC EVENT" with subhead. (see images) Article takes up over 4 full columns of the front page.
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  • Mormonism - "The Religion of Polygamy"... Boss Tweed on the run...
    Item #708514
    NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Dec. 28, 1871  Page 2 has an entire column dedicated to: "THE MORMONS - THE RELIGION OF POLYGAMY. Affairs in Utah - Brigham Young - The Decline of Mormondom", which extends to the top of page three. The front page has multiple articles related to Boss Tweed, his order of arrest, and of him... Read full description  
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  • The Mormon murders... "Mormon & English Polygamists...
    Item #708513
    NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Dec. 23, 1871  Page 4 has over a column dedicated to: "THE MORMON MURDERS. - THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. ROBINSON IN 1866", which provides considerable details regarding the murder and related initial "shame investigation" surrounding the murder of Dr. J. K. Robinson. Another Mormon-related... Read full description  
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  • By the Shaker Community during the 1870's...
    Item #708488
    THE SHAKER, Shakers, New York, and Shaker Village, New Hampshire, February, 1876  A monthly publication "Published By The United Societies" for folks in the Shaker community, quite famous today for the style of furniture they produced. This issue has much religious-related content including "Religion" "The... Read full description  
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  • Reconstruction efforts, and the plight of former slaves...
    Item #708471
    NEW YORK TIMES, June 26, 1865  Articles inside include: "The Freedmen's Bureau - Report of the Condition o the Freedmen" "The Homeward March" which reports on the soldiers returning from the fields of battle; "Negro Suffrage an Uncertain Remedy--The True Reliance" "Reconstruction In South Carolina" "From North Carolina -... Read full description  

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  • Very lengthy coverage of the trial of Lincoln's assassins...
    Item #708438
    NEW YORK TIMES, May 17, 1865  Among the front page column heads are: "THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS" "Testimony Taken in Secret Session Last Week" "Revelations Concerning the Origin of the Murder Plot" "It was Decided Upon Just After the Rebel Defeat at Gettysburg" "Booth's... Read full description  

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  • Amnesty & pardon for Confederates...
    Item #708430
    NEW YORK TIMES, May 6, 1865  Among the first column heads on the closing moments of the Civil War are: "AMNESTY & PARDON" "Gen. Halleck Offers Amnesty to the Southern People" "They May Take the Oath and Go Where they Please" "Officers Excepted from Amnesty May Apply for Pardon" "How Jeff Davis & His Cabinet were Received in North... Read full description  

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  • Lincoln's body on its way to Springfield... Frederick Douglass lecture...
    Item #708428
    NEW YORK TIMES, May 3, 1865  Page 5 has: "The President's Obsequies" "From Chicago to Mr. Lincoln's Home" with subheads: "Closing Manifestations in Chicago--the Body Escorted on its Way--Mrs. Lincoln's Selection of a Burial place--The Journey Toward Springfield".
    The... Read full description  

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  • Ulysses S. Grant for President - 1872 advertisement...
    Item #708407
    THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 25, 1872 

    * Equine influenza - horse epidemic
    * 1972 North American outbreak
    * Ulysses S. Grant election notice
    * Civil War general for president


    The top of the back page has a one column heading: "THE HORSE PLAGUE" with subheads. (see images) Text takes up over 2 columns.
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  • 1882 Gunnison, Colorado original...
    Item #707957
    GUNNISON DAILY REVIEW, Colorado, May 10, 1882

    * Rare Old West title
    * Volume 1 issue


    An uncommon title from this boom mining town in the southwestern quadrant of Colorado, tucked in a valley amidst the Rocky Mountains.
    Gunnison boomed in the late 1870's and early 1880's and was once the home of Wyatt Earp and "Texas Jack". Today... Read full description  
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  • From the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains...
    Item #707870
    THE TUOLUMNE INDEPENDENT, Sonora, California, Oct. 27, 1883  

    * Rare Old West publication

    From this old, beautiful town at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It was founded by Mexican miners during the gold rush era.
    Various news and some nice, Western-themed advertisements of the day.
    Eight pages, good condition.
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  • Early Teddy Roosevelt speech to unite the Republican Party...
    Item #707834
    NEW YORK TIMES, March 26, 1883  The 1st column of the front page has a multi-column article headed: "FORGETTING PARTY FEUDS", with subheading: "THE REPUBLICANS OF NEW YORK ANXIOUS FOR HARMONY", which includes the text of a compelling speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in an effort to unite the... Read full description  
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  • Lillie Langtry - early appearance in America... Bell Telephone soars...
    Item #707833
    NEW YORK TIMES, March 28, 1883  An early appearance of Lillie Langtry, Bell Telephone's Annual Meeting, trouble with Indians, a Billiard Tournament, the capture of thieves, a Canadian dog show, politics, and more. This issue provided an abundance of reporting which will help the reader capture both the events... Read full description  
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  • 1898 Battle of Sugar Point... Minnesota...
    Item #707765
    THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 8, 1898

    * Battle of Sugar Point - Leech Lake - Minnesota
    * Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians - Bugonaygeshig


    The top of the front page has a one column heading: "THE INDIAN TROUBLES" with subheads. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era.... Read full description  
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  • Reconstruction reports in a Copperhead newspaper...
    Item #707636
    THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1865  One of the later dates of this once Copperhead newspaper (northern paper with pro-South leanings) that we have offered.
    Among the reports: "Progress of Reconstruction" "Restoration of South Carolina" "Jefferson Davis--The Kentucky Resolutions" "The Programme Of Ruin - The Position of the... Read full description  

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  • 1889 San Diego Flume opening...
    Item #707450
    THE SAN DIEGO UNION, Feb. 22, 1889

    * San Diego Wooden Flume opening - dedication
    * Lake Cuyamaca to La Mesa area - waterway


    The top of the front page has a one column heading: "THE FLUME" with subheads and two related images. (see images) This was the opening day of the San Diego Flume. Probably only found in a San Diego publication, very... Read full description  
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  • Very rare title from the "broom corn capital of the world"...
    Item #707404
    THE ARCOLA RECORD, Illinois, March 28, 1867  This is the volume 1 issue of a very scarce newspaper, as Gregory (Union List of American Newspapers) lists only two institutions having just a single issue each (1876 and 1883) and another institution having only issues dated after October, 1914. 
    Various news & ads... Read full description  

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  • Very rare title from the "broom corn capital of the world"...
    Item #707403
    THE ARCOLA RECORD, Illinois, April 18, 1867  

    * Douglas County
    * Very rare publication


    This is a volume 1 issue (#50) of a very scarce newspaper, as Gregory (Union List of American Newspapers) lists only two institutions having just a single issue each (1876 and 1883) and another institution having only issues dated... Read full description  
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  • America's famous, illustrated daily newspaper...
    Item #707379
    THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, April 21, 1879  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Another Exodus - Home Rule in Egypt" "The Zulu War" "The Wreck of the French Floating Battery Arrogante in the Bay of Badine, Island of Hyeres" "View of Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill, Looking North From... Read full description  
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  • Baseball champions...
    Item #707373
    HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 16, 1885  The entire front page shows: 'Vesuvius In Eruption'. The prime print would be the full page captioned: "Champion Baseball Players" showing portraits of twelve players from various baseball teams, including James O'Rourke, John Ward, Joseph Hornung, William Ewing, and others.
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  • Woodhull & Claflin...   The Ku Klux Klan...
    Item #707363
    NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 5, 1872  The front page has: "The Ku Klux" "Greeley's Friends at Work in Kentucky--They Hang a Man, His Wife, and Daughter to the Same Tree".
    Page 2 has: "Woodhull & Claflin" "An Indictment Found Against Them--A Writ of Habeas Corpus for Col. Blood--Arrest of Stephen Pearl... Read full description  
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  • Woodhull & Claflin open the first women's brokerage firm on Wall Street...
    Item #707356
    NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 6, 1870  

    * Historic 1st female Wall Street brokerage opens
    * Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin sisters
    * "The Bewitching Brokers" shatters tradition


    The top of the back page has an intriguing report of a very notable--yet widely unknown--Wall Street... Read full description  
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  • Thomas Edison invents the phonograph (1st mention)...  Baseball science...
    Item #707327
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Nov. 17, 1877 

    * Historic Phonograph invention
    * Early Pre-public unveiling 
    * Thomas Edison - inventor
    * Early baseball science


    A page 2 article headed: "A Wonderful Invention--Speech Capable Of Indefinite Repetition From Automatic Records" reports this about... Read full description  
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  • By the Shaker Community...
    Item #707253
    THE SHAKER, Shakers, Albany County, New York, December, 1872  This title is: "Published Monthly, by and Under the Direction of the Mt. Lebanon Bishopric" as noted in the masthead. It is for those in the Shaker community, quite famous today for the style of furniture they produced.
    Much religious content as might be expected.
    Eight pages, 9 3/4 by 13 3/4... Read full description  

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  • Battle of Sand Butte... 1873 Modoc War...
    Item #707250
    NEW YORK HERALD, April 30, 1873

    * Battle of Sand Butte
    * Modocs Indians War
    * U.S. soldiers massacre
    * Captain Evan Thomas killed
    * Scarface Charley victory


    Page 5 has a terrific report on the Battle of Sand Butte during the Modoc War. The top of the page has a one column heading: "SLAUGHTER" with several subheads and related map.... Read full description  
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  • 1874 Brooks-Baxter War.... Republican Party...
    Item #707108
    THE NEW YORK HERALD, May 7, 1874

    * Brooks-Baxter War
    * Little Rock, Arkansas
    * Republican Party factions


    The top of page 7 has a one column heading: "THE ARKANSAS ANARCHY" with subheads. (see images) Text takes up almost 2 full columns.
    Other news of the day. Complete with all 12 pages, minor margin wear, nice condition.
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  • Published by the Shakers...
    Item #707098
    THE SHAKER MANIFESTO, Shakers, New York, February, 1878  This was the "Official Monthly" published by the "United Societies". The Shakers were a religious sect primarily known today for their cultural contributions, principally style of furniture and their model of gender equality.
    As would be expected most of the content is Shaker... Read full description  
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  • Mining town of Eureka, Nevada...
    Item #707091
    EUREKA DAILY LEADER, Nevada, Aug. 8, 1879  

    * Rare mining town title - Wild Old West
    * "Eureka" valuable resources found term

    A very nice, folio-size newspaper from this small, remote town in northeastern Nevada.
    This old mining town is situated in the mountains at a 6,500 feet elevation in a county with just 3 towns--total... Read full description  
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  • The Mormons...
    Item #707062
    THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 2, 1871  Front page first column heads include: "The Mormon Citizens in Utah in a Submissive Mood" "The Mormons--Attitude of the Administration--Apprehensions of the Railway Companies" "All Quiet at Salt Lake City--Reported Attempt to Follow and Arrest Brigham Young".
    Eight pages, nice condition.
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  • The Mormons and Salt Lake City...
    Item #707060
    NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 1, 1871  Among the front page column heads: "Bold Outrage by Kuklux in Mississippi" "Suspension of Habeas Corpus in South Carolina Justified" "Prosecution of the Mormon Cases to be Persisted In" "Awkward Position of the Husband of a Ninth Wife".
    Among the subheads: "The Mormons" "Mayor Wells' Bail--The Ninth Wife of Auditor... Read full description  

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  • Nice Mormon content...
    Item #707059
    NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 30, 1871  Among the front page column heads are: "Mormons Visiting Mayor Wells in Prison Yesterday" "Sermon by Elder Cannon to Ten Thousand People" "A Prophecy that God Will Overthrow Their Persecutors" "Defiant Harangue of Elder Pratt in the Same Audience" plus: "Arrest of Kuklux Murderers... Read full description  
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  • A 'revisit' to the meeting of Stanley & Livingstone...
    Item #707057
    NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 25, 1872  Page 3 has most of a column headed: "LIVINGSTONE FINDS STANLEY" "Arrival in New York of the Lost Explorer's Brother' "Interview Between John Livingstone and Stanley" "Stanley and Kalulu in Confab--The Curiosity Hunters--Photographs".
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  • Recuperating from the Civil War...
    Item #707054
    NEW-YORK TIMES, June 14, 1865 Among front page column heads: "Trade Free!" "All Restrictions East of the Mississippi Annulled" "Reconstruction" "President Johnson on Republican Government" "Appoints William L. Sharkey to be Provisional Governor" & more. Two "Proclamations" are each... Read full description  
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  • From San Francisco, after the Civil War...
    Item #707049
    EVENING BULLETIN, San Francisco, California, Dec. 9, 1865  From the West Coast not long after the end of the Civil War. A wide variety of reports, mostly from the West. The front page has a great article: "The Trial of a Rebel Journal" which reports on the 'Memphis Appeal' newspaper, which traveled from Memphis, to... Read full description  
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  • Nashville, shortly after the Civil War...   The real Grizzly Adams...
    Item #707028
    WEEKLY PRESS & TIMES, Nashville, Tennessee, Nov. 26, 1865  Various reports from shortly after the end of the city, much relating to Reconstruction efforts to re-join the nation as is evidenced in the photos. And page 3 has an article: "Old Grizzly Adams - How He Humbugged Barnum - His Death Scene". A... Read full description  

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  • Full page map of Cuba...   Modoc Indians...
    Item #706996
    NEW YORK HERALD, April 16, 1873  Inside has a wealth of reporting on the events in Cuba at the time with nearly a full column of heads including: "CUBA" "O'Kelly's Triumph" "The March to Jiguani" "The Battle of Canadian" "A Spanish Ambuscade" "Inhuman Horrors" "Strength... Read full description  
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  • Debating the Thirteenth Amendment...   Johnson's Proclamations...
    Item #706988
    DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 1865  The front page has a somewhat brief article: "The Georgia Convention - Abolishment Of Negro Slavery" which concerns the historic 13th Amendment. When Georgia ratifies it in December it would become the law of the land.
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  • Georgia's vote means the Thirteenth Amendment is the law of the land...
    Item #706986
    DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 1865  

    * Slavery abolished in America (historic)
    * 13th Thirteenth Amendment ratification


    Page 2 begins with a very historic report headed: "OFFICIAL" "Georgia the Twenty-eighth State, Ratifies the Constitutional Amendment"... Read full description  
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  • Sitting Bull's camp captured...   Return to Palestine...
    Item #706964
    AMERICAN SOCIALIST, Oneida, New York, Jan. 25, 1877 

    * Capture of Sitting Bull's Camp
    * Much regarding the Jews

    Inside this issue is a small but historic article on the discovery and capture of the Indian camp headed by Chief Sitting Bull.
    Also within are two articles of Judaic interest: one describing the return... Read full description  
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  • Bicycles... The "accidental" discovery of x-rays... Biltmore estate...
    Item #706879
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Feb. 1, 1896  Page 3 has a notable report "Prof. Roentgen's Discovery" [Wilhelm Röntgen] which is the accounting of how the discovery of x-rays was made by accident.
    The front page shows the United States Navy Yard in New York. Also within the issue are articles: ... Read full description  
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  • From the famous town of Gunnison, Colorado...
    Item #706765
    GUNNISON DAILY REVIEW, Colorado, June 1, 1882  

    * Rare old West publication
    * Anheuser-Busch brewing 
    * Budweiser lager beer ad 


    An uncommon title from this boom mining town in the southwestern quadrant of Colorado, tucked in a valley amidst the Rocky Mountains.
    Gunnison boomed in the late 1870's and early 1880's... Read full description  
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  • America purchases Alaska from Russia...
    Item #706620
    NEW YORK TIMES, March 31, 1867  

    * Alaska purchase - Seward's Folly
    * William H. Seward - Russia


    Page 4 contains a very historic, yet somewhat inconspicuous, report headed: "A Large Territorial Acquisition" beginning: "It is announced that, by treaty with Russia, our government has acquired possession of the... Read full description  
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  • A  racist newspaper on the post-war events...
    Item #706595
    NEW YORK WEEKLY DAY-BOOK CAUCASIAN, Sept. 30, 1865  

    * Rare pro-white title
    * Reconstruction era


    A decidedly racist newspaper which began well before the Civil War & lasted a few years after. As such their reporting on events of the day provide a contrasting perspective beyond most other Northern newspapers.
    Among the... Read full description  
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  • First appearance of a Walt Whitman poem...
    Item #706229
    NEW YORK HERALD, March 2, 1888 

    * Walt Whitman's "My Canary Bird" poem - 1st appearance

    The top half of page 6 has the printing of a short poem: "My Canary Bird" by Walt Whitman as noted at its conclusion. This was the very first printing of this Whitman poem as verified by the Walt Whitman Archive, and is very... Read full description  
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