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- GLC#
- GLC02783.01
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- March 15, 1881
- Author/Creator
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
- Title
- [Appointment of A.M. Kimball as alternate commissioner for treaty anniversary]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 27 cm, Width: 39 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Populism and Agrarian Discontent
Certificate appointing A.M. Kimball to act as Alternate Commissioner of an "international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine," to be held in New York City in 1883. The exhibition would mark the "one hundredth anniversary of the treaty of peace and the recognition of American independence." Kimball was nominated by the Governor of Wisconsin. Marked with a white paper presidential seal on bottom left.
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