The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington

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Illustrated book bound in blue cloth with gold stamping. Front cover stampedin gold: "The Gift Book of the Republic, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, The Union and the Republic for Ever" (with emblem below).
The title page reads: "The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic, since the Death of Washington, C. Edwards Lester, editor, New York: M. B. Brady, F. D'Avignon, C. Edwards Lester, MDCCCL."
The volume contains portraits of: General Zachary Taylor, John Caldwell Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Silas Wright, Henry Clay, John Charles Freemont, John James Audubon, William Hickling Prescott, General Winfield Scott, President Millard Fillmore, William Ellery Channing, and Lewis Cass each followed by a biography.

The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes

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The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington, Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY), Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes

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