Image / Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America

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Title: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a blank letter of marque certificate signed by President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis and Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin authorizing the ship to act as a private armed vessel against the United States of America during the American Civil War; embossed seal at bottom left.
Type: image
Extent: 1 woodcut : uncolored ; overall 29.85 x 42.23 cm (11 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0183
477654
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23957
Language: English
Subject: Letters of marque
Privateering--Law and legislation
Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
Naval
Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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