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Lot 67
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
Lots 1-296
Jun 21, 2022
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Jun 22, 2022
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600
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$1,500
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Lot Description
[CIVIL WAR]. COOLEY, Sam A., photographer. A group of 2 stereoviews with African American subject matter.
6 x 3 in., or smaller, stereoviews on cardstock mounts (rich tonality, wear to mount edges).
Views include: Issuing rations to Contrabands, Beaufort, S.C. (period pencil inscribed title to mount verso). With Cooley's Tenth Army Corps photographer paper label imprint affixed to the mount verso. -- Untitled outdoor image with an African American cart driver standing in his wagon in front of D.C. Wilson & Co. store with a crowd of African Americans on the front porch.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War Samuel Cooley operated a photography studio in Beaufort, SC. When that city was captured by Federal forces during the Battle of Port Royal, Cooley began taking images of the War, becoming the the U.S. Army's official photographer of the X (Tenth) Corps, and later stying himself as, "Official Photographer of the Department of the South. "
Property of a New York Lady