LINCOLN, Abraham. Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), as President, countersigned by Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher, 16 March 1865. Signed less than a month before Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865.
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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Engraved document signed ("Abraham Lincoln"), as President, countersigned by Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher, 16 March 1865.
1 page, oblong folio, 367 x 482 mm, with blind embossed seal of the Department of the Interior, creased, some minor staining, framed (unexamined out of frame).
Signed less than a month before Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865, this document appointed Joel A. Potter of the Dakota territories to be the "Agent for the Ponca Indians in the Territory of Dakota."
This lot is located in Chicago.
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