https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SewardTravels/pages/000-frontispiece-william-h-seward/
William H. Seward (1801 – 1871) was Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869; after he retired he began writing an account of his travels, but after he died his wife Olive Risley Steward took over.
The paper was mottled with brown foxing; i used the mono mixer in #GIMP, reducing the green channel, to get rid of it.
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