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Shober, Democratic National Amphitheatre.... Chicago, 1864. 9½ x 17. Tinted litho. Marginal tear
outside printed area, else VG. Rare. SOLD
View looking north along the lakefront roughly from 12th St. to the River. The hall, capacity
16,000, was designed by Chicago architect O.L. Wheeler for the 1864 Democratic Convention.
Former General George McClellan, though he accepted the nomination, was unable to reconcile
the anti-war party platform with his own views and lost to Lincoln in the general election.
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