[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] CDV album cont. approx. 185 photographs of American and European personalities.

11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. album containing approx. 185 real photo and engraved CDVs of European and American personalities, including royalty, poets, authors, notables, and heads of state. Photographers / publishers include Abdullah Freres; H. Thomas; Ch. Bergamasco; Hanns Hanfstaengl; Steinberger & Bauer; Eduard Schultze; von J. Schulze; Nadar / Gaspard-Félix Tournachon; A Ken Emile Bondonneau; Sommer & Behles; Gaston & Mathieu; Charles Jacotin; Numa Blanc; J. Löwy; Ernst Milster; Baldi & Würthle; E. Flamant; S. Rogers; H. Le Lieure; and many others.

Highlighted subjects include (in approximate order as shown in album): Composite image of the Presidents of the United States. -- Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad. -- Andrew Johnson. -- Ulysses S Grant. -- William Tecumseh Sherman. -- General Joseph E Johnson. -- Napoleon Prime Imperial. -- Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie de Montijo (Napoleon III wife). -- Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Count Walewski, Emile Olivier French Political Figure. -- Marie Isabelle of Orléans. -- Alphonse de Lamartine a prominent French Poet. --French Political and Historian. -- Louis Adolphe Thiers. -- French engineer Pierre-Dominique Bazaine with family. -- Leopold II King of the Belgians. -- French Politician Albert de Broglie. -- French Politician & Historian Louis Blanc. -- French Politician Leon Gambetta, French Writer & Politician. -- Victor Hugo; Mary Queen of Scots. -- group of 11 members of the Orleans family. -- Henri d’Artois Count of Chambord. -- King Edward VIII. -- Queen Alexandra of Denmark. -- Duke of Hamilton. -- Emperor of Germany Wilhelm III. -- Queen Victoria of Prussia. -- Czech / Bohemian Art Nouveau Sculptor Ladislav Šaloud. -- Johan of Saxony. -- Queen Maria Sophia of Naples. -- Pope Pius IX ( many other religious figures ). -- Victor Emmanuel King of Italy. -- 2 images of Umberto I king of Italy. -- Queen Margherita of Italy. -- Abdulaziz Sultan of Ottoman Empire. -- Sultan Abdul Hamid II. -- Omar Pasha. -- Unidentified intriguing Young boy wearing Ottoman? uniform. -- Isma’il Pasha Khedive of Egypt. -- Queen of Greece. -- King of Greece. -- Abdullah Freres Constantinople. -- Many images imperial body guards. -- Group of four Bedouins. -- Peddler in Istanbul. -- Image of three woman of the Ottoman Empire Harem. -- Montenegrin military commander, politician and poet Mirko Petrović-Njegoš. -- Abdullah Biraderler Editörlü Feraceli Kadın Kabin. -- Antonio Perini. -- Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. -- 6 images of Bal Mabille (Dance and Pleasure Establishment, Avenue Montaigne, Paris). -- Image of Exposition Universelle of 1867, Paris. -- Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, Steamship Sweany Cleveland alongside Wharf, San Francisco. -- Hotel Angst in Bordighera, Italy. -- Image of Casino de Dieppe, Dieppe France. -- Napoleon III. -- Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian. -- Pierre Jean de Beranger. -- Victorian actress singer, Miss Kate Santley. -- Actress singer, Lennox Grey. -- Actress & opera singer, Zare Thalberg. -- Queen of Burlesque, Amy Sheridan. -- Image of large group of all woman orchestra with conductor Josefine Amann-Weinlich. -- Katchen Adacker and a series of 6 female figures. -- Renowned American stockbroker, “Jubilee Jim”, James Fisk Jr. -- Otto von Bismarck. -- The Empress of Mexico (Charlotte of Belgium). -- Maximilian I of Mexico. -- Alexander III of Russia, “Future Emporer Tsar” as the caption reads. -- Lord Byron. -- Panorama of Pompeii. -- A host of prominent opera singers and actresses. -- Pope Pius IX. -- Several hand colored images of Popes Guards. -- 3 images of Singer Marie Roze. -- Tenor Joseph Amedee-Victor Capoul. -- Unidentified female, possibly a singer or actress.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.