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Harper's Weekly Harpers Weekly [(May 30, 1863)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09791.13 Author/Creator: Harper's Weekly Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper Date: 30 May 1863 Pagination: 2 p. ; 40.9 x 28.8 cm. Order a Copy

One page of the May 30, 1863 issue of Harper's weekly. Features various advertiments as well as a political cartoon entitled " The Slave Owner's Spectre."

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