APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA

by California Literature, A. D. W.

$1,650 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Signed

N.p., n.d. Circa 1861-1865. . Broadside, 34x23 cm 13 3/8 x 9 inches . A plea for prohibition, the end of war, and emancipation. A plaintive poem railing against the evils men have brought upon society, on many levels, not least their penchant for war, and the warfare waging in the East/ and victories won ... / Not armed men with cannon, fire and sword, / but braver women are the soldiers now ... A reference to the ongoing Civil War. The broadside is signed

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