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Gideon Welles: Media

American politician

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Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2017895749)
Emancipation Proclamation, first reading
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, engraving by A.H. Ritchie, 1866....
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-pga-02502)