The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Lot comprised of 15 photographs and prints of Ulysses S. Grant and his family. Images in varying conditions though most feature some toning and spotting, with wear to mount edges and corners. Some edges and corners of mounts and prints trimmed. Highlighted by the following:

CDV, U.S. Grant, Lt. Gen., USA, Photographed on the field, March 15th, 1865. Waltham, MA: H.F. Warren. -- Cabinet card, Gen. U.S. Grant. Uncredited, seated view of Grant in civilian clothing. -- CDV of Julia Dent Grant, U.S. Grant's wife. Washington, DC: Brady. -- 3 CDVs of Grant's children, including Ulysses (Cincinnati: Hoag & Quick), Nellie (Washington, DC: Henry Ulke, 1868), and Jessie (Washington, DC: Henry Ulke, 1868). -- CDV of the Grant Family, after lithograph/engraving, uncredited. -- -- Lieut. General Grant at home. Washington: Alexander Gardner, photographer, Philp & Solomons, publishers, 1865. 6 3/4 x 9 in. photograph on 10 x 12 in. cardstock mount (two 5-cent internal revenue stamps on verso). -- Cabinet card, Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, Taken June 19th, 1885. Uncredited.

Boudoir photograph of City Hall in New York draped in mourning in honor of U.S. Grant. Uncredited. -- 4 photographs documenting Grant's funeral in 1885, approx. 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in., mounted recto/verso on original cardstock mounts with printed titles in lower margin. Scenes include Arrival of the Mt. McGregor Funeral Train at Saratoga Springs, This Room Communicated with the Death-Bed Room, The Walker Light Guards, Co. B, 1st Virginia Regiment..., Major General Jos. W. Plume and Staff. Each print copyrighted in negative by the U.S. Inst. Photo Co., 1885 (some chipping and wear to mount edges and corners). -- 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. page removed from album featuring a series of 9 snapshots capturing the parade celebrating the unveiling of a Grant statue in Philadelphia, ca 1899.