The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Approx. 96 CDVs of political leaders, statesmen, judges, attorneys, writers, journalists, financiers, and other personalities of the Civil War period. Photographers/publishers represented in the collection include: Brady (Washington); Alexander Gardner (Washington, DC); E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negatives) (New York); Churchill & Denison (Albany, NY); Gurney (New York); D.O. Furnald (Manchester, NH); Rockwood (New York); Willard's Galleries (Philadelphia); Black (Boston); Piper (Manchester, NH); Sarony (New York); Henry Ulke (Washington, DC); and others. Conditions generally good to very good, with occasional toning, soiling, edge and corner wear to mounts. Some mounts trimmed significantly.

Highlighted subjects include: 3 CDVs of Supreme Court Justices, including Roger Taney, Greene Bronson, and Hiram Denis. -- Daniel S. Dickinson. -- Edward Everett. -- Oliver W. Holmes. -- John Andrew. -- George M. Dallas. -- Clark Cochrane. -- Daniel Clark. -- Daniel Webster. -- David Tod. -- Adolph Borie. -- John Forney. -- James Fisk Jr. -- Tom Corwin. -- William Belknap. -- James Watson. -- Thomas Walter. -- Rufus Choate. -- Isabella Hinckley. -- Peter Parley. -- Edwin Forest. -- Thomas Upham. -- Charles Buckalew. -- Galusha Grow. -- Horace Maynard. -- William Dayton. -- Henry Wilson. -- Edgar Cowan. -- Edward Chapin. -- Washington Hunt. -- James G. Bennett. -- George Ellis Baker. -- Henry B. Anthony. -- 44 CDVs of distinguished men from Massachusetts, possibly attorneys. Some CDVs are signed or identified in period hand on verso.