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The great match at Baltimore, between the "Illinois Bantam" and the "Old Cock" of the White House

Lithograph of a rooster with Stephen Douglas's head crowing on top of a fallen rooster with James Buchanan's head in a cockfighting pit.
Made by
Currier & Ives; probably drawn by Louis Maurer
Date
c1860
Held by
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Catalog number
LC-DIG-pga-04863
Rights
No known restrictions on publication.
Credit line
Currier & Ives, The Great Match at Baltimore, 1860. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-04863.
Catalog record
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Lithograph of a rooster with Stephen Douglas's head crowing on top of a fallen rooster with James Buchanan's head in a cockfighting pit.

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