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The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856

The Great American Buck Hunt of 1856

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1856
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The Emancipation Proclamation

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Proclamation of Emancipation

Proclamation of Emancipation

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2013
Chuck Close
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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1932
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