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| an interesting partial bound run of the Brooklyn Daily Union w approx 130 complete, issues remaining of a bound run March to Sept 1866, apprix 20 or so issues missing. News includes the Civil Rights Bill Passage, Pres Johnson's veto, Jefferson Davis Trial, The South & Reconstruction, The NY Excelsiors baseball team news, illus ads for baseball equipment & Remington revolvers, RE Lee interview, African-Americans The Cholera Epidemic sweeping the US , causing riots and mobs burning hospitals, Brooklyn Firemen in another melee, dozens hurt, local & crime news. The front page is mainly NY politics (the paper is Democratic), w news on the inside pages. Many issues w page tears, stains. Covers loose. |
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