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Currier & Ives View of Harper's Ferry, VA, (from the Potomac side)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10014 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York Type: Print Date: 1861 Pagination: 1 print ; Order a Copy

One print entitled View of Harper's Ferry, VA. dated 1861. Described by authenticator as hand-colored lithograph. (Possibly chromolithograph with hand-retouching?)

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