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Summary
Written in ink on verso: Consul General Gustav Spiess; Hon. Gustav Spiess, Germany, Commissioner.
Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
Autobiographical statement is in the Supplemental Biographical File. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portraits for a collection about judges and commissioners who served at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
John Boyd Thacher collection about judges and commissioners for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
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Date
01/01/1890
Source
Library of Congress
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