Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

Comprising:

48 CDVs and cabinet cards of abolitionists and members of the clergy, many identified in period or modern inscription on mount recto or verso. Images in overall good to very good condition. Most feature some toning and light spotting, with wear to mount edges and corners.

Photographers/studios represented in the collection include Sarony (New York), Bogardus (New York), Fredricks (New York), Appleton (New York), Anthony (New York), Henry (Brattleboro, VT), Warren (Boston), and Rockwood (New York).

Highlighted abolitionists include: 2 photographs of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist, minister, politician, and soldier. Higginson was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown, and during the Civil War served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment. First view, a 4 1/2 x 3 in. photograph on 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. mount with Higginson's clipped signature affixed below the portrait. Second view, cabinet card portrait from the same sitting, uncredited. -- 4 CDVs of Henry Ward Beecher. First pose, E. Anthony (Brady negative, New York). Second pose, Fredricks (New York). Third and fourth poses uncredited. -- CDV, Anna E. Dickenson. Uncredited. -- CDV, James Falconer Wilson. Uncredited. In 1863, he introduced a bill into the US House of Representatives for a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in the United States. -- CDV, Theodore Parker. Allen & Horton (Boston). Abolitionist and friend to Robert Shaw and family. -- Cabinet card, Leonard Bacon. Warren (Boston, MA). -- Cabinet card, Joseph Cook. Bogardus (New York). -- Cabinet card, Theodore Tilton. Melander (Chicago, IL). -- Boudoir photograph showing William Lloyd Garrison's house draped in mourning following his death. Uncredited.

Highlighted members of the clergy include: Henry W. Bellows, President of US Sanitary Commission during the Civil War (3 CDVs, one cabinet card). One CDV appears to include H.W. Bellows' signature on mount verso. -- Composite image of 9 members of the clergy, including Bishop Matthew Simpson. -- George Bethune. -- Thomas Talmage (one CDV, one cabinet card). -- Thomas Hastings. -- William Adams. -- Charles Mooney. -- Andrew Peabody. -- William M. Taylor. -- Robert Laird Collier. -- Samuel Hanson Cox. -- John Chambers. -- John Hughes. -- Dudley Tyng. -- And others.

[With:] Approx. 80 items, including CDVs, cabinet cards, a Columbia Class Book with tipped in photographs, and a broadside identified to colleges, universities and other schools, ca 19th-early 20th century. Highlights include: 60 cabinet cards documenting staff, students, and the grounds of Dartmouth College, the majority with imprint on verso, "From the Dartmouth Photographic Studio, Hanover, NH, H.H.H. Langill, Prop'r." Consignor's modern note indicates that the photos were previously housed in an album dating from 1891. -- Approx. 14 CDVs of Phillips Academy, also known as Andover, a private, boarding school located in Andover, Massachusetts. Includes a view of the school and portraits presumably showing staff and students, many credited to Warren (Cambridgeport, MA). -- CDV showing a group of 7 young men, credited to Boude & Miley (Lexington, VA). Although unidentified, the men may have been students from Washington College. -- The Nineteen Hundred & One Class Book: A Record of the Senior Class of Columbia College. New York: The Grafton Press, June 1901. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. book containing approx. 95 tipped-in photographs (each approx. 3 x 2 in.) of members of the senior class, each with printed biography and some accompanied by the subject's autograph. FFEP identified to "G(?)B Keeler, 1901." -- Commencement Week, Bowdoin College, July 5-11, 1874. [Brunswicke, ME]: J. Griffin's Press, 1874. 24 x 9 1/2 in. printed broadside (some wear to margins). 

Together, approx. 128 items.