The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Lot comprised of 29 photographs, mainly CDVs. Various locations and photographers/publishers are represented, including Cross & Frank (Fort Whipple, VA), Yeager, Weitfle & Hall (Washington, DC), Tyson (Gettysburg, PA), G.T. Lape (New York), Wakely (Washington, DC), Bankes Gallery of Photographic Art (Little Rock, AR), Weaver (Hanover, York Co., PA), Fowx (City Point, VA), Osborn's Gallery (Charleston, SC), Adams Gallery (Worcester, MA), and Butterfield (Cambridgeport, MA). Conditions overall good to very good, with occasional toning, spotting, and edge and corner wear to mounts.

Highlighted scenes include (as identified in period or modern pencil): General Rickett's Home, Mosely Hill. -- White House, VA, where the Confederate attack on McClellan took place. -- White Oak Church, VA. Washington, DC: Weitfle & Hall. -- Grant's Headquarters, City Point. Yeager. -- Hospital Landing. City Point, VA: E.G. Fowx. -- Fort Sumter after capture by CSA troops in 1861. Charleston, SC: Osborn's Gallery. -- Fort Sumter after capture. Uncredited. -- Devil's Den, Gettysburg. Hanover, York, PA: Weaver. -- Big Round Top from the Wheatfield Road. Gettysburg, PA: Tyson. -- Southern Slope of Round Top. Gettysburg: Tyson. -- General Q.A. Gillmore's Head Quarters, Folly Island, SC. New York: G.T. Lape. -- Union barracks. Little Rock, AR: Bankes Gallery of Photographic Art. -- Hollywod Cemetery, Richmond, VA. Uncredited. -- View of a soldier's memorial adorned with banners and ribbon, likely taken at the close of the war. Worcester, MA: Adams Gallery. -- Fort Pickering, Salem. Uncredited. -- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Philadelphia: H.C. Phillips.

6 albumen photographs, 3 x 4 in., mounted recto/verso to cardstock, uncredited. Scenes include Dahlgren Church, Antietam Cemetery, and South Mountain Battlefield. -- 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. photograph on cardstock mount of Antietam Cemetery, uncredited. -- And others.