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Al Smith Sign
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Round campaign sign in behalf of the unsuccessful Democratic Presidential candidacy of Alfred E. Smith, copyright by S.S. Bloom. Smith, who was best known as Al Smith, was the first Catholic to be nominated for the Presidency.
1928
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WHi 56213
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