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Wood engraving of office seekers
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Wood engraving of office seekers
White House guard William Crook considered office-seekers to be the “most persistent and unreasonable” group of President Lincoln’s many visitors. This detail of a wood engraving made for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper of April 6, 1861, shows a group of office-seekers gathered in the White House Entrance Hall in hopes of meeting with President Lincoln.
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