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where ticker tape was the closest thing the Gilded Age had to scripture

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Colonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame where ticker tape was theColonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861. A border state commander rendered in the early ink of the war, when Missouri's loyalty was a knife's edge and Blair's regiment was the Union's wager that St. Louis would not slip south. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers