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Image Title: Grand Reception Of The Notabilities Of The Nation, At The White House 1865

Creator: Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.,

Date: 1865

Summary: Print shows an interior view of the ballroom at the White House during a reception for the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln; shows President Lincoln bowing slightly to greet Mrs. Grant with General U.S. Grant slightly behind her; on Lincoln's right is Vice President Andrew Johnson and on this left is Mrs. Lincoln. Among those shown are Charles Sumner, General John Sherman, William P. Fessenden, General Winfield Scott Hancock, Horace Greeley, General Benjamin F. Butler, Gideon Welles, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edwin M. Stanton.

Notes: A reproduction of the "Key to the Presentation Plate, entitled, 'Grand reception of the notabilities of the nation at the White House, 1865'" is filed in LOT 11507.

Subjects: Grant, Julia Dent,--1826-1902
Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
Johnson, Andrew,--1808-1875
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Inauguration, 1865
Lincoln, Mary Todd,--1818-1882
Receptions--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870
White House (Washington, D.C.)--1860-1870

Places: Washington D.C.

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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