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Lot 926

Sale 2067 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Nov 6, 2024
Lots Close
Nov 20, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 - 700
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$381
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[LINCOLNIANA]. Photographs and ephemera related to Abraham Lincoln and his associates.


11 CDVs including: Vignetted bust portrait of Daniel Webster(1782-1852). Boston: Black & Case, ca 1864. -- Close-up portrait of antislavery politician Peter Cooper (1791-1883). New York: Campbell & Hecker, n.d. Photographer's imprint on verso along with applied paper label for photograph dealer E. B. Fay of New York. Multiple pencil inscriptions throughout. -- Vignetted bust portrait of Lincoln's Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden (1806-1869). N.p., n.d. Printed identification to mount recto. -- Seated portrait of Lincoln's Postmaster General Montgomery Blair (1813-1883). Reproduced from a Brady negative. Partly obscured imprint to verso, along with affixed paper label for Earles' Galleries & Looking Glass Ware Rooms, Philadelphia. -- Close-up portrait of Civil War General Carl Schurz (1829-1906). New York: Brady, n.d. Brady's imprint on verso along with penciled identification (soiling). -- Vignetted profile portrait of Lincoln's Secretary of State William H. Seward (1801-1872). N.p., n.d. Printed identification to mount recto (heavy wear and soiling throughout). -- And 5 engravings featuring Abraham Lincoln including the death bed scene, "Lincoln Family," and others. Conditions vary. -- Together, 11 CDVs.

8 items related to Abraham Lincoln, including: 2 engraved portraits of Lincoln, one by W. G. Jackman after Brady, copyrighted by Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865, and the other by the Illman Brothers. Both produced on sheets approx. 6 x 9 in. -- 5 x 6 in. (image) bust portrait photograph of Lincoln printed on 8 1/4 x 10 in. sheet with indented framing around image. N.p., n.d. -- 2 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. silk ribbon for the Monument League Convention held on 16 June 1900. Featuring a portrait of Lincoln at center and text "Executive - Committee" at top (fraying, major separation to upper portion of ribbon, some separation to lower portion). -- 3 x 4 1/4 x 1 in. glass paperweight featuring a copy of Brady's 9 February 1864 photograph of Lincoln. West Alexandria: Walter Ward, n.d. The copy portrait of Lincoln along with the felt bottom of the paperweight are entirely separated from the glass weight itself. -- And 3 other items related to Lincoln. including a "Lincoln Dioramic Association" admission certificate to a diorama of the funeral obsequies of Lincoln. -- Together, 8 items.

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