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Raffles.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Jane Stuart painting raffle list

 Collection — Box Multi 01
Identifier: MS-0081
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a list of sixty raffle participants, at 5 dollars a ticket, for a painting of George Washington by Jane Stuart based on one by her father, Gilbert Stuart. Proceeds were to benefit “the Club” possible the Newport Reading Room. The raffle was held in Newport, Rhode Island in August 1868.

Dates: 1868 August 31