The Lincoln Centennial Medal: Presenting the Medal of Abraham Lincoln by Jules Édouard Roiné Together with Papers on the Medal: Its Origin and Symbolism by George N. Olcott and the Lincoln Centennial Commemoration by Richard Lloyd Jones and Certain Characteristic Utterances of Abraham LincolnG.P. Putnam's sons, 1908 - 70 psl. |
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