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The exterior stone walls of St. Paul's Universalist Church are all that remain after the church building was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Republican National Committee Chairman and United States Senator Marcus Hanna sits for a portrait. Hanna signed the image: "M. A. Hanna To my friend Mrs. Herman Kohlsatt January 26, 1900."

The gravesite of William Rayburn, "A Divine Messenger," is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Cover dedication: "To his Excellency, Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania." "Sung at the Consecration of the Soldiers' Cemetery at Gettysburg: (November 19th 1863)."Governor Curtin organized the effort to create a national soldiers' cemetery…

Pablo Casals (center) meets with Robert Carleton Smith and his wife. On verso: "San Juan, Puerto Rico - Pablo Casals offers wedding congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Carleton Smith of New York, who visited the master cellist in his San Juan home…

Song sung from the perspective of former slave or "Contraband" who has recently found security and freedom behind Union lines. The song is dedicated to Union general Benjamin F. Butler, who was the first Union commander to allow escaped slaves to…

Joseph Proctor writes to Thomas McKeon regarding his upcoming schedule and the many cities he plans to visit. On the reverse side is a letter written by G.S. Ballard to N.B. and H.E. Proctor sending them the frock measurements of F.W. Kinsman and…