Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-1857 [Print with a clipped signature of Preston S. Brooks]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02095.37 Author/Creator: Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-1857 Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 14.5 cm Order a Copy
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.
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