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Civil War envelope portraying Abraham Lincoln as a chemist

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This envelope, produced during the American Civil War, features a patriotic Union theme with President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) portrayed as a pharmacist, chemist or alchemist stirring a receptacle titled "Pure refined national elixir of liberty." Posters advertising Union remedies surround him. Confederate leaders are shown as hanging specimens in bottles.
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