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Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-1857

Engraving

Title: [Print with a clipped signature of Preston S. Brooks]

With clipped signature of Brooks. Both engraving and signature are pasted to backer page. A pencil note, also on backer page, explains that Brooks attacked Charles Sumner after Sumner's famous "Crime Against Kansas" speech in the Senate.

GLC02095.37

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