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The Cyclopædia included the names of over 20, 000 native and adopted citizens of the United States, including living persons.

Also included were the names of several thousand citizens of all the other countries of North and South America.

The aim was to embrace all noteworthy persons of the New World.

The work also contained the names of nearly 1, 000 people of foreign birth who were closely identified with American history.

The Cyclopædia was illustrated with about sixty full-page portraits supplemented by some 1, 500 smaller vignette portraits accompanied by facsimile autographs, and also several hundred views of birthplaces, residences, monuments, and tombs famous in history.