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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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(From the original photograph^ 2o6 OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS
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1881-1885.(From a late photograph bv C. M. Bell, Washington, D. C) OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS 207 Three of these are living, and for the other the country has scarcely yetput off its mourning. To write of their public life now, would be in-congruous in a magazine of the character of this. Their portraits have aproper place in our gallery, but the events of their lives, however interest-ing to the world, have not yet become history. t£^>^^2ut^ (The reader will be interested in learning that the eight uniform portraits which accompanyMr. Egglestons article, after engravings by H. Wright Smith, were never before published. Thesteel plates, from which only a few prints had been made, were destroyed in the Boston fire. A se-ries of nineteen Presidential Portraits—Washington to Hayes—had been completed for a magnifi-cent volume containing Biographical Sketches and an Introductory Essay by John Fiske, A.M.,LL.B., Assistant Librarian of Harvard University, author of Myths and Myth-Make

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