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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: The Late Anson Burlingame
Additional Description: “We give on this page the portrait of Mr. Anson Burlingame, Chinese Envoy to the United States and European Powers, who died at St. Petersburg, Russia, on the 23rd of February, after an illness of only four days.” – Harper’s Weekly. Burlingame was appointed minister to the Qing Empire by Abraham Lincoln. After he retired the Chinese government appointed him envoy extraordinaire and minister plenipotentiary to lead a diplomatic mission from China to the United States and other European powers.
Submitted: August 28, 2020, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p536505
File Size: 0.406 Megabytes

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