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and linen-finish scenic plates from publishers like Curt Teich

his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking

The lithographed portrait carries that gum-card sheen of the early Depression years

and the abstract noun made visual — published in the year secession forced every household to choose a side

scorched surrender to the Union advance

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