The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

13 photographs, comprised of a combination of CDVs and cabinet photographs of US presidents and their families. Images in varying conditions though most feature some toning and spotting, with wear to mount edges and corners.Subjects include:

Millard Fillmore. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negative). -- Abraham Lincoln (7). First pose, CDV of Lincoln. Uncredited, but originally taken by Mathew Brady, January 1864. Lincoln said of this particular portrait: "I don't know that I have any favorite portrait of myself; but I have thought that if I looked like any of the likenesses of me that have been taken, I look most like that one" (Ostendorf, p. 170). Second pose, CDV of Lincoln. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negative). Third pose, oval portrait of Lincoln on cardstock mount. Philadelphia: Wenderoth & Taylor. Fourth pose, unmounted oval portrait of Lincoln. Uncredited. Fifth pose, Lincoln with his son Tad. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negative). Sixth pose, Lincoln with his son Tad. Boston: G.F. Bouve. Seventh pose, CDV of the Lincoln family. Uncredited. -- Mary Todd Lincoln. Boston: William H. Mumler. -- Andrew Johnson. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negative). -- Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy Hayes (3). First pose, cabinet card view of Rutherford B. Hayes seated. New York: Anthony & Co. Second pose, cabinet card view of Rutherford B. and Lucy Hayes. New York: Mora. Third pose, cabinet card portrait of Lucy Hayes. New York: Mora.