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Envelope

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06627.03.028 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Envelope Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: Envelope Height: 7.9 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

The envelope has a image of a Union soldier with a drum on his back smoking a pipe. There is also lines and spaces to fill in the address of where it is going. Same image as GLC06627.03.081

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