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Lot 1 — Matthew Thornton, Signer of the Declaration of...Lot 2 — Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Signer of the Declaration of...Lot 3 — Colonial America and the British Mercantile System of...Lot 4 — Pre-Revolutionary War Events Covered in the Massachusetts...Lot 5 — General Cornwallis' Surrender to George Washington at...Lot 6 — Battle of Yorktown and General Cornwallis' Surrender...Lot 7 — Revolutionary War Wooden Relic from Benedict Arnold's...Lot 8 — Significant Libertas Americana Medal Lot 9 — Rare Hand-Colored Engraving of War of 1812 Engagement...Lot 10 — Battle of Tippecanoe Relic Axe Lot 11 — Connecticut Land Company Archive Lot 12 — Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Winfield Scott, Ca 1844, One...Lot 13 — Major Michael Schmitt, Independent Battalion New York...Lot 14 — Civil War and Indian War Officer William H. Keeling, 13th...Lot 15 — Exceptionally Clear Quarter Plate Tintype of a Triple-Armed...Lot 16 — Quarter Plate Tintype of Union Private Holding a Colt Navy...Lot 17 — Three Quarter Plate Tintypes of Armed Civil War Soldiers Lot 18 — Sixth Plate Tintype of a Double-Armed Dandy Posed with a...Lot 19 — Private Jonas Shattuck, 26th Massachusetts Infantry, Five...Lot 20 — Sixth Plate Tintype of Possible American Indian Private in...Lot 21 — Sixth Plate Civil War Tintype of an Armed Zouave Lot 22 — Three Sixth Plate Tintypes of Soldiers Armed with Pistols...Lot 23 — Two Sixth Plate Civil War Tintypes Featuring Armed Young...Lot 24 — Ohio 3rd Volunteer Cavalry, Large Collection of Tintypes,...Lot 25 — Civil War CDV Album of Union Generals, Most by Brady/Anthony Lot 26 — Captain James E. Moore, 17th Connecticut Regiment, KIA...Lot 27 — Johnny Clem CDV with Clipped Signature as Major General Lot 28 — Pair of Civil War CDVs of Frances Clayton by S. Masury,...Lot 29 — Massachusetts 49th Infantry at Port Hudson, Louisiana,...Lot 30 — McPherson & Oliver, Two Civil War CDVs of the Baton Rouge...Lot 31 — Two Civil War CDVs of Union and Confederate Batteries at...Lot 32 — McPherson & Oliver, Civil War CDV of Steamboat Natchez ,...Lot 33 — Civil War Military Execution Stereoview, The Hanging of...Lot 34 — E. & H.T. Anthony and Taylor & Huntington Civil War...Lot 35 — George A. Custer with Sheridan and his Staff, Photograph...Lot 36 — Generals of the Cavalry Corps, Including Sheridan and...Lot 37 — Pach Brothers, Photograph of Eight Union Commanders at Long...Lot 38 — Mammoth Albumen Photograph of James A. Garfield as Major...Lot 39 — Civil War Hand-Tinted Albumen Photograph of Possible 76th...Lot 40 — Civil War Albumen Photograph of the Guard Tent at Saratoga,...Lot 41 — Civil War Albumen Photograph of the 7th Delaware Battery...Lot 42 — Gettysburg Reunion Photograph Collection Identified to...Lot 43 — Half Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Officers, Incl....Lot 44 — Civil War Quarter Plate Ambrotype of a Well-Armed...Lot 45 — Jefferson Davis Sixteenth Plate Abbott Tintype Lot 46 — Jefferson Davis & P.G.T. Beauregard 1861 Ferrotype Lot 47 — Jefferson Davis, Presidential Inauguration Medallion and CDV Lot 48 — Jefferson Davis CDV, Signed and Dated to his Imprisonment...Lot 49 — Jefferson Davis and Varina Davis Signed Cabinet Card Lot 50 — Jefferson Davis, Cabinet Cards, Incl. Last Known Photograph Lot 51 — Miscellaneous Items Related to Jefferson Davis Lot 52 — Robert E. Lee, Unpublished Autographed CDV Lot 53 — Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee Signed CDV Lot 54 — CSA Inspector General Walter Harrison, Autographed CDV Lot 55 — John Singleton Mosby Signed CDV Lot 56 — Confederate Dead Outside Battery Robinett, Corinth,...Lot 57 — Very Rare 1861 New Orleans Imprint, Opinion of Chief...Lot 58 — Rare Confederate Imprint, Prayers...for the Use of the...Lot 59 — Confederate Enrolling Notice Broadside from Clinton,...Lot 60 — Leasing Abandoned Plantations , Civil War Broadside, 1864 Lot 61 — Rare Broadside Announcing the " Surrender of Gen. Lee!! "...Lot 62 — J.E.B. Stuart Thrice Signed Pre-War Pay Voucher Lot 63 — Confederate General William R. Terry Antebellum Merchant...Lot 64 — Gettysburg POW Letter Archive of Private William P.C....Lot 65 — Confederate Archive of Private James Monroe Geer, 1st South...Lot 66 — War Date CSA Letter Archive of Tennessee Senator Joseph...Lot 67 — Van Lew Family Archive, Incl. Letters from Civil War...Lot 68 — Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861...Lot 69 — Pair of Important Letters Concerning Colonel William Emory,...Lot 70 — Civil War Diaries of Jared P. Hubbard, 2nd New Hampshire...Lot 71 — Civil War Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John Ripley, 8th Vermont...Lot 72 — Rollin Neale Corlew, 33rd Massachusetts Volunteers, 1865...Lot 73 — Family Letter Archive of Henry B. Whitney, 110th New York...Lot 74 — Battle Content Letter Archive of Private Watson Barber,...Lot 75 — Civil War Diary of Thomas Mains, 33rd Independent Battery,...Lot 76 — 1864 Civil War Diary of Eli Rockwell, 13th New York Heavy...Lot 77 — Private Robert S. Beckwith, 1st New Jersey Infantry, DOW...Lot 78 — Letter Archive of Edward Anderson, 1st New Jersey Artillery Lot 79 — 1862 Diary of Union Officer Horatio P. Kile, Co. G, 41st...Lot 80 — Civil War Archive of George W. Jones, 26th Wisconsin...Lot 81 — Civil War Archive of Corporal Zachariah C. Riley, 16th...Lot 82 — Civil War Chaplain Asa Severance Fiske, 4th Minnesota...Lot 83 — Civil War Correspondence Between Arkansas and Iowa Soldiers...Lot 84 — Civil War Archive of Midwestern Soldiers and Brothers James...Lot 85 — Civil War Archive of John McGraw, 6th Michigan Infantry,...Lot 86 — Capt. William R. Hoel, USN Mississippi River Squadron,...Lot 87 — Civil War Diary of James Nixon, USN Lot 88 — Civil War Hand-Drawn Map of the Siege of Suffolk, Virginia,...Lot 89 — Asher's Historical War Map, 1862, with 100th Indiana...Lot 90 — Exceptionally Rare Confederate Map of the Seat of War Lot 91 — Camp Kitchen and General Burnside's Headquarters, Pen and...Lot 92 — Confederate Sharpshooters, Fredericksburg, Pen and Ink...Lot 93 — Stampede of the 11th Corps on the Plank Road, Oil Painting...Lot 94 — William Ludwell Sheppard, after W.D. Washington, Pen and...Lot 95 — William Ludwell Sheppard, Pen and Ink Sketch Depicting a...Lot 96 — The "Brooklyn," Pen and Ink Sketch by Xanthus Smith Lot 97 — Telegraphing in the Field, Original Pen and Ink Sketch by...Lot 98 — Looking for a Friend, Original Pen and Ink Sketch by I....Lot 99 — The White House - Before and After the Fire, Pen and Ink...Lot 100 — Harrison House, Pen and Ink Sketch by Alfred R. Waud Lot 101 — Civil War Pencil and Gouache Battlefield Sketch by Alfred...Lot 102 — John R. Chapin, Gouache Depicting Custer's Charge at...Lot 103 — John R. Chapin, Original Artwork Depicting the Confederate...Lot 104 — John R. Chapin, Watercolor and Gouache Depicting Soldiers...Lot 105 — Edwin Forbes, Pen and Ink Sketch Depicting Pickett's Charge...Lot 106 — Edwin Forbes, Pen and Ink Sketch of the Army of Northern...Lot 107 — Norval H. Busey, Watercolor of a Standing Zouave Lot 108 — Scarce Civil War Chromolithograph Atlanta Campaign, Army of...Lot 109 — Civil War Patriotic Cover Collection Lot 110 — Confederate Souvenir Star from 9th Virginia Cavalry Flag Lot 111 — Civil War Charm Identified to Private Meisner, 28th...Lot 112 — Rare 1st Minnesota Volunteers Corps Badge Lot 113 — Hand-Painted Civil War Canteen Identified to Elisha B....Lot 114 — 19th Century Drum by John C. Haynes & Co.Lot 115 — Early Nineteenth Century Bloodletting Instrument Kit Lot 116 — State of Virginia Flag, ca 1870s Lot 117 — 13-Star US Flag with Unusual Star Pattern Lot 118 — 13-Star Silk Flag Possibly Made by Betsy Ross' Granddaughter Lot 119 — 13-Star Nautical Flag by Annin Flag Company Lot 120 — 13-Star Nautical Flag by Annin Flag Company Lot 121 — 30-Star US Flag Lot 122 — 31-Star US Flag Lot 123 — 34-Star Silk Parade Flag, Plus Lot 124 — Prince of Wales Tour of Italy, 1918, Collection of 18...Lot 125 — Adolf Hitler Initialed Teapot, Reportedly Taken from his...Lot 126 — WWII Archive of Russell E. Gackenbach, Navigator of...Lot 127 — Major General James E. Chaney Archive, Incl. Letters from...Lot 128 — George Patton and Alexander Patch Signed Photograph Lot 129 — Outstanding Early Image Collection Descended from...Lot 130 — Occupational Half Plate Ambrotype of Photographer Posed...Lot 131 — Half Plate Ambrotypes of a Bearded Man and Fat Lady,...Lot 132 — Sixth Plate Tintype of a Young African American Woman, Plus Lot 133 — Virginia Argus , Rare 1804 Newspaper Featuring...Lot 134 — African American Shakespearean Actor Ira Aldridge, " The...Lot 135 — Rare Anti-Slavery Tokens, Lot of 3 Lot 136 — Antislavery Woodcut, No Higher Law , Ca 1850 Lot 137 — Exceedingly Rare Photograph of Formerly Enslaved African...Lot 138 — George Washington, Exceedingly Rare Etching, Ca 1785-1800 Lot 139 — George Washington, Two Words Written in his Hand, Plus Lot 140 — John Quincy Adams' Personal Issue of the New York American...Lot 141 — William Henry Harrison 1840 Campaign Illustrated Band Box...Lot 142 — William Henry Harrison 1840 Campaign Wedgwood Transferware...Lot 143 — William Henry Harrison, 1840 Log Cabin Pattern Cup & Saucer Lot 144 — Exceptional William Henry Harrison 1840 Great Harrison BBQ...Lot 145 — Tippecanoe Battleground 1840 Whig Meeting Relic Cane Lot 146 — Coin Silver Match Safe Featuring Portrait of Zachary Taylor...Lot 147 — Franklin Pierce Presidential Signed Appointment for Texas...Lot 148 — Abraham Lincoln, Fine Photograph Printed by Ayres from the...Lot 149 — Abraham Lincoln CDV by Brady, Taken Before the Cooper Union...Lot 150 — Abraham Lincoln, Two CDVs by Brady/Anthony Lot 151 — Abraham Lincoln, Pair of Cabinet Cards, Featuring Portrait...Lot 152 — President Lincoln at Battlefield of Antietam , Photograph...Lot 153 — Lloyd Ostendorf, Pen and Ink Wash Drawing of Abraham and...Lot 154 — Lloyd Ostendorf, Pen and Ink Wash Drawing of Abraham and...Lot 155 — Abraham Lincoln Plaster Bust by Volk Lot 156 — Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Campaign Literature Lot 157 — Ford's Theatre Relics, Incl. Wallpaper, Lace, and Wood from...Lot 158 — Edwin Booth, Brother of John Wilkes Booth, & Lawrence...Lot 159 — Lincoln Assassination, Three Funeral Sermons Preached...Lot 160 — Abraham Lincoln, Rare Books Related to his Life and...Lot 161 — Abraham Lincoln, Five Civil War-Period Titles and Imprints,...Lot 162 — Union Pacific Moffat Tunnel, Tolland, Colorado , Folk Art...Lot 163 — The Life of Abraham Lincoln Drawn From Original Sources by...Lot 164 — Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858 by Albert J. Beveridge, Scarce...Lot 165 — Abraham Lincoln: The War Years , Carl Sandburg, Signed...Lot 166 — Exceptional Folk Art Carved Grover Cleveland and Cabinet...Lot 167 — Cleveland & Hendricks, Pair of 1884 Campaign Flags Lot 168 — Blaine & Logan, Pair of 1884 Campaign Flags Lot 169 — Roosevelt Battle Flag , 1912 Campaign Bandanna Lot 170 — Theodore Roosevelt 1912 Campaign Bandanna Featuring Rough...Lot 171 — Joan Andrew, Washington Post and CNN Sketch Artist, 16...Lot 172 — Joan Andrew, Washington Post and CNN Sketch Artist, 16...Lot 173 — Joan Andrew, Washington Post and CNN Sketch Artist, 24...Lot 174 — Joan Andrew, Washington Post and CNN Sketch Artist,Nine...Lot 175 — Archive of the Gavet Family of Salem, Massachusetts, Two...Lot 176 — Anna Almy Jenkins, Quaker and Granddaughter of Brown...Lot 177 — Samuel L. Clemens CDV with Signed Inscription Lot 178 — Ernest Hemingway, Collection of Hand Notations Lot 179 — Edwin Hubble, American Astronomer, Signed First Day Cover Lot 180 — Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Chair Lot 181 — Pair of Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Stools Lot 182 — Wine Rinser Belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,...Lot 183 — Erie Canal Completion Medal with Original Box, In White...Lot 184 — Hand-Painted Lamp Shade of an Arctic Expedition, Ca...Lot 185 — Illustrated 1843 Virginia Broadside for the Sire Utilitarian Lot 186 — Late Nineteenth Century T. Dixon Boot and Shoe Broadside,...Lot 187 — Bird's Eye View of Detroit Factory Parke Davis & Co....Lot 188 — David Crockett's " Garden Spot of the World " Letter,...Lot 189 — General George Custer and his Dog, Civil War Stereoview Lot 190 — General George A. Custer Stereoview by Taylor & Huntington Lot 191 — Métis Leader, Louis Riel, Exceptionally Rare Autographed CDV Lot 192 — Joel Whitney, Exceptional Album Containing Large Format...Lot 193 — Battle of Sugar Point, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, 1898,...Lot 194 — Sixth Plate Ambrotype of an American Indian, Possibly...Lot 195 — A. Zeno Shindler Albumen Photograph of Black Eagle, Yankton...Lot 196 — W.H. Jackson Photographs of Pawnee Braves Lot 197 — Indian Training School Photographs, Incl. Carlisle...Lot 198 — Sitting Bull Cabinet Card by Bailey, Dix & Mead Lot 199 — Sitting Bull Cabinet Card by L.W. Stilwell Lot 200 — Sitting Bull Cabinet Card by D.F. Barry, Plus Lot 201 — Sitting Bull Photograph by D.F. Barry Lot 202 — CDV Featuring Shoshone Chief Washakie, Ca 1865 Lot 203 — W.S. Soule, Fort Sill Cabinet Card Featuring Penateka...Lot 204 — Will Soule, Two Cabinet Cards of Plains Indians, Incl....Lot 205 — CDV of a Sioux Camp Featuring Tipi and Drying Hides Lot 206 — Kansa Indian Family CDV by Reiff, Plus Lot 207 — Collection of C.C. Stotz and G.W. Parsons Cabinet Cards of...Lot 208 — Two Boudoir Cards of Oklahoma Territory Indians, Incl....Lot 209 — Trio of Boudoir Cards of Oklahoma Territory and Iowa...Lot 210 — C.C. Stotz, Two Boudoir Photographs, Incl. " Issue Day "...Lot 211 — W.L. Sawyers Boudoir Card of Three Oklahoma Territory...Lot 212 — Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, Photographs of...Lot 213 — Camp Fairview, New Mexico, Boudoir Card with Notation...Lot 214 — C.S. Fly Boudoir Photograph, Group of Hostiles from...Lot 215 — D. B. Chase Boudoir Photograph of Pueblo Indians from San...Lot 216 — Scarce Catalogue of F.A. Rinehart's Photographs of American...Lot 217 — F.A. Rinehart, Two Platinum Photographs Featuring Chief...Lot 218 — F.A. Rinehart, Three Platinum Photographs Featuring...Lot 219 — F.A. Rinehart, Two Platinum Photographs Featuring Henry...Lot 220 — F.A. Rinehart, Two Platinum Photographs Featuring Pancho,...Lot 221 — Edward Curtis Signed Platinum Photograph, Getting Water -...Lot 222 — Edward Curtis, Ten Photographs from Original Manuscript...Lot 223 — Roland W. Reed Signed Photograph of Ojibwe Indian, "Ringing...Lot 224 — California Pioneer John Augustus Sutter, Sixth Plate...Lot 225 — Early San Francisco Stereoview Collection, Lot of 27 Lot 226 — Trio of Pitkin, Colorado Stereoviews Showing the Mining...Lot 227 — Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller, Featuring Exceptional...Lot 228 — Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller, Large Collection of...Lot 229 — Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller Documenting People from...Lot 230 — Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller, Featuring Railroad...Lot 231 — Indian Territory Traction Company, Fantastic Photo Album...Lot 232 — Charles J. Belden Photograph of CB&Q Railroad Train Passing...Lot 233 — Little Miami, Central Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads,...Lot 234 — Colton's New Railroad & County Map of the United States,...Lot 235 — Two Rare Railroad Maps from the Union Pacific and Missouri...Lot 236 — 1883 Surveyor's Diary of William B. Lawson, Engineer for...Lot 237 — Oklahoma War Chief , Rare Newspaper Founded by Oklahoma...Lot 238 — Oklahoma Boudoir Cards, Incl. 1889 Land Rush Photographs Lot 239 — Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, Beautifully Painted First Piece...Lot 240 — Cattle Baron Albert Bothwell, Personal Gambling Box Lot 241 — Dodge City, Kansas, Rare Albumen Photograph of Front Street Lot 242 — The Dalton Gang in Death, Photograph Taken in Coffeyville,...Lot 243 — C.D. Kirkland's Views of Cow-Boy Life, Eight Boudoir...Lot 244 — Cowboy Life Captured in Three Boudoir Cards by Western...Lot 245 — Ca Late 1870s Tintype of a Wild West Show Performer Lot 246 — Buffalo Bill Cody Cabinet Card by Anderson, Ca 1880s Lot 247 — Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, Cabinet Card by Cross Lot 248 — Buffalo Bill Cody, Rare Orotone Portrait Lot 249 — Buffalo Bill Wild West Programs for 1892, 1895, and 1898 Lot 250 — Buffalo Bill Wild West Programs for 1905 and 1908, Plus Lot 251 — Rare Buffalo Bill Wild West Program for 1906 Lot 252 — Buffalo Bill Wild West Programs for 1910, 1911, 1912/13 and...Lot 253 — Texas Jack Omohundro and Wife, Two CDVs Lot 254 — Annie Oakley Cabinet Card by Brisbois Lot 255 — Annie Oakley Cabinet Card by Stacy Lot 256 — Buck Taylor, "King of the Cowboys," Imperial Size Photograph Lot 257 — W.F. Doc Carver, CDV, Program, and Newspaper Clipping Lot 258 — Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay and Hay, in Ten...

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