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| Title | Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture, Francis Bicknell Carpenter |
| Author | Francis Bicknell Carpenter |
| Publisher | Hurd and Houghton, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0608432474, 9780608432472 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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