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Lot 278
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(TRUMAN, HARRY)
Album of autographed photographs from Harry Truman-era Washington, including the President, personalized to Col. James Hunt. Leather album (36 cm. tall), lightly worn at head and foot of spine and stained on inside covers, but otherwise in very good condition. With 32 leaves featuring 64 full-sized photographs.The very first inscribed photo is that of Truman ("Best wishes to Lt. Col. Jas. V. Hunt | Harry Truman"). Among the other notables who signed for Hunt are Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, Maine Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith, and Kentucky Senator (and future Commissioner of Baseball) A.B. "Happy" Chandler.



