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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1492

Rosenwald, Julius (1862-1932). American businessman and philanthropist best known as the head of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He established the Rosenwald Fund to support the education of African American children in the rural South. Also the principal founder and backer for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. TDS. 4vo. January 22, 1929. Sears, Roebuck and Company Executive Offices, Chicago. To Mr. Barrett.

"I do not know what I have done to entitle me to such generosity and sacrifice on your part, which is again evidenced by the book I received through Judge Horner…"

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