[GRANT, U.S. (1822-1885)]. 5 images of U.S. Grant, incl. last photograph taken before his death.

A lot of 5 photographs, including:

9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. photograph on cardstock mount showing Ulysses S. Grant with his family at Mt. McGregor, NY. Saratoga Springs, NY: E.N. Doubleday, ca 1885 (light edge wear to mount, some residue on verso). Grant is shown seated at center, flanked by Ulysses S. Grant Jr., Julia Dent Grant, Nellie Grant Sartoris, Frederick Dent Grant, Jesse Grant, with other family members seated below on the porch. Possibly the only complete photo of the Grant family ever taken, this image was shot on 19 June 1885, three days after Grant had arrived via a special train aboard Cornelius Vanderbilt's private rail car as he raced to finish writing his memoirs. -- Last Photograph of Gen. Grant, Four Days Before Death. Mt. McGregor & Canajoharie, NY: Gilman, 22 July 1885. 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (toning, staining). Grant is shown seated in his favorite chair, reading a newspaper, and wearing a top hat, the day he completed his Memoirs of the Civil War. This image, taken four days before Grant's death, is from a series of views documenting Grant's final days by J.G. Gilman (1839-1895), a longtime and active photographer in Canajoharie and Palatine Bridge, NY.

[With:] 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. cabinet photograph on cardstock mount of Gen. U.S. Grant (toning, soiling to print; lower right corner of mount separated but reinforced with magazine paper affixed to mount verso, pinhole in upper margin). -- CDV after lithograph/engraving of General Grant and his wife housed in a pressed paper frame (scattered spotting). -- CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in uniform with his family. Uncredited (very good).

Together, 5 photographs of U.S. Grant and his family.

Property from the Augustana Collection