The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

18 CDVs of Civil War officers and enlisted men, all but one subject unidentified, wearing crepe bands or cockade pins, paying tribute to the assassinated president, Abraham Lincoln. Photographers/publishers include: H. Spillman, Gill's City Gallery, Lancaster, PA, Filley & Gilbert, New Haven, CT, Harter's Gallery, Auburn, NY, Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC, John Goldin & Co, Washington, DC, Black & Case, Boston and Newport, RI, Cook, Weymouth Landing, MA, Clarke's Union Photographic Gallery, New York, and Brady, Washington. Conditions generally good, with occasional soiling, toning, and edge and corner wear to mounts. Some mounts trimmed.

Highlighted cartes include: Studio portrait of Moses O. Pearson, 2nd lieutenant, Co. C, 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, the only identified officer included in the lot. Pearson is shown wearing a Lincoln mourning cockade on his sleeve. -- Studio view of a large group of men and women, including a soldier seated at right wearing a Lincoln morning band. -- CDV of an officer with kepi in hand adorned with a 12th Corps badge, wearing a mourning band.