[LITERATURE]. Portraits of famous authors and writers, incl. Alexandre DUMAS, Nathaniel HAWTHORNE, Ralph Waldo EMERSON, et. al.

10 CDV portraits of subjects including: Alexandre Dumas by Nadar, Paris; Josh Billings by Gurney, New York, NY; Bayard Taylor (uncredited); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (uncredited); Ralph Waldo Emerson by J. E. Tilton & Co./ Black, Boston, MA; Nathaniel Hawthorne by J. E. Tilton & Co./Black, Boston, MA; Charles Farrar Browne, AKA "Artemus Ward" by E. & H. T. Anthony/Brady, New York, NY; James Russell Lowell (uncredited); John Howard Paine by Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston, MA; and John G. Saxe (mounted to larger cardstock). -- 4 cabinet card portraits of subjects including: George Henry Boker by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, PA; Nathaniel Hawthorne (engraving, uncredited); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (uncredited); and Sarah Janes Lippincott, AKA Grace Greenwood (uncredited). -- And a4 3/4 X 6 1/2 in. mounted silver gelatin press print of Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain, with typewriter captioning on verso announcing the famous writer's death. -- Together, 15 images.

Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey

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[LITERATURE]. Portraits of famous authors and writers, incl. Alexandre DUMAS, Nathaniel HAWTHORNE, Ralph Waldo EMERSON, et. al.

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