Author: L. Quincy Mumford (Library of Congress)
Title: Illinois: The Sesquicentennial of Statehood
Description: Washington: Library of Congress, 1968. Paper bound, stapled wrappers, illustrated, 58pp includes index. Very good. 165 grams. On December 3, 1968, the Library of Congress presented an exhibition commemorating the sesquicentennial of Illinois statehood. On that day, 150 years before, Congress, by joint resolution, formally admitted the new State, the 21st, into the Union. This is a catalog of the exhibition. It describes rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, maps, drawings, prints, and photographs selected from the Library's collections, together with materials on loan from the National Archives.

Keywords: Quincy Mumford, Illinois Sesquicentennial Statehood History: US


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