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DateLate 1800s
Object numberD0405
DescriptionComposite object: lithograph mounted on cardstock with 45 miniature images of famous people. Card published by the American Literary Bureau, Agency for Lectures, Readers and Singers, Cooper Institute, New York. The back of the card has the publisher and identifies the various portraits however, the card has been pasted onto a scrap of lined notebook paper on which someone has rewritten in ink the entire list of names. Names include: E. Yates, Eli Perkins, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, DeCordova, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, Charles Sumner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, A.E. Dickinson, H.W. Beecher.