The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Lot comprised of 12 images. Conditions generally good with occasional toning, spotting, edge and corner wear to mounts, including occasional loss. Including:

9 CDVs, highlighted by: CDV, composite photograph featuring signers of the 13th Amendment. Uncredited. Composite photograph of the politicians who passed the 13th amendment which formally banned slavery. With slightly larger portraits of vice president Hannibal Hamlin at top center, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax at center, and President Lincoln at the bottom center (toning to print, edge wear including chip to lower left corner of mount). -- CDV, vignetted portrait of Lincoln. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony. -- CDV featuring satirical cartoon of Lincoln as a grandmother, spoon feeding the Draft to the people. San Francisco: Wm. Shew. -- CDV, standing sculpture of Lincoln by Vinnie Ream. Washington: Vinnie Ream. -- "Columbia's Indignation," showing Columbia standing beside a portrait of Lincoln draped in mourning, composed by C.A. Barry for H.W. Horton. -- "Washington receiving Lincoln," memorial CDV. Uncredited. -- "The Council of War," CDV showing John Rogers sculpture featuring Lincoln, Grant, and Stanton. New York: H. Wood, Jr. -- And 2 others.

"The Council of War," stereoview showing the same John Rogers sculpture described above. Boston: Joseph L. Bates. -- Cabinet photograph of the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, created by Thomas Ball, depicting Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation while freeing an enslaved man with broken shackles on his wrists. Washington, DC: J.F. Jarvis (some staining on mount verso). -- Oval albumen print, 2 1/2 x 2 in., on trimmed cardstock mount of Lincoln. Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor.