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Receipt of Payment by William Young, for preparing mourning cloth, mounting for a bridle, cleaning a saddle, and preparing boots and holsters – $29.50 from General Ebenezer Stevens, Committee of the Cincinnati Society
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Pen and ink on paper
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints Maps and Pictures Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold 1954
Title: Receipt of Payment by William Young, for preparing mourning cloth, mounting for a bridle, cleaning a saddle, and preparing boots and holsters – $29.50 from General Ebenezer Stevens, Committee of the Cincinnati Society
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Pen and ink on paper.
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