The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Approx. 53 CDVs of political leaders, statesmen, judges, attorneys, writers, journalists, and other personalities of the Civil War period. Photographers/publishers represented in the collection include: Brady (Washington); Carbutt (Chicago); Fredricks & Co. (New York); Gurney & Son (New York); E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negatives) (New York); Gutekunst (Philadelphia); Tilton (Boston); Whipple (Boston); D. Appleton & Co. (New York); Bogardus (New York); Sarony (New York); Churchill & Denison (Albany, NY); and others. Conditions generally good to very good, with occasional toning, soiling, and edge/corner wear to mounts. Some mounts heavily trimmed.

Highlighted subjects include: Andrew Curtin. -- Roger Taney. -- Stephen Douglas (2). -- Schuyler Colfax. -- Daniel S. Dickinson. -- William Brownlow. -- Edward Everett (2). -- Henry W. Bellows. -- James Russell Lowell. -- Oliver W. Holmes. -- Marcus Pomeroy. -- Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl. -- John P. Hale. -- Silas Wright. -- James Kent. -- Bayard Taylor. -- Thomas Hendricks. -- John A.J. Creswell. -- Francis Cutting. -- Charles Wilkes. -- John Jay. -- H.W. Beecher. -- Horace Greely. -- Adolph Borie. -- George Boutwell. -- Hamilton Fish. -- Ebenezer Hoar. -- Preston King. -- James Dix. -- John G. Whittier. -- John J. Crittenden. -- John B. Gough. -- Joseph Wright. -- And others.