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The Ben Benson Collection includes original portrait art of presidents and first ladies by Ben Benson, various formats of printed presidential iconography and related presidential and U.S. political memorabilia from George Washington to Barack Obama.

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This broadside from Calvin Morgan Dold, mayor of Lexington, Virginia, gives notice of President Garfield's death on September 20, 1881. He says businesses will be suspended for the day and instructs citizens to come to Lexington Presbyterian Church for religious services.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of four signed letters to Tucker, one from each Theordore Roosevelt during his time as president, Alfred E. Smith during his time as Govenor of New York, William Jennings Bryan during his first run for President, and Grover Cleveland during his time as president. Roosevelt appoints Tucker to be a representative to the September 1904 Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists to be held in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith thanks Tucker for his letter about a section of the...

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Nineteen photocopied pages of newspaper clippings, concerning General Virginus D. Groner, including articles from a variety of papers dealing with the struggle between General Groner and other Republicans including General William Mahone for control of the Republican Party in Virginia at the 1888 national nominating convention in Chicago and during the gubernatorial campaign of 1889 in Virginia.