Image: Reuel Colt Gridley circa 1864
Description: A photo of Reuel Colt Gridley, who became famous in the United States in 1864 by repeatedly selling a sack of flour to raise money for the "Sanitary Fund" (to help wounded U.S. Civil War veterans). From The celebration of Nevada's semicentennial of statehood By Jeanne Elizabeth Wier (1917) Note: This picture was published in Harper's Weekly in 1865.
Title: Reuel Colt Gridley circa 1864
Credit: https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/?f%5Bsubject_geographic_facet%5D%5B%5D=Austin+%28Nev.%29&per_page=20
Author: photographed by G. H. Johnson, San Francisco
Permission: Published prior to 1923 in United States, copyright expired
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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