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           | Description | 
            Frederick Douglass | 
          
          
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           circa 1879 | 
          
          
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              This scan from  DOD War and Conflict CD collection.  A lossless version is  here | 
          
          
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           Photograph by George K. Warren (d. 1884). | 
          
         
         
        
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