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Lot 159
Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$244
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Lot Description
[ABOLITION & WOMEN'S RIGHTS]. 4 CDVs featuring subjects related to the cause of abolitionism.
Seated studio portrait of Quaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist Lucretia MOTT (1793-1880), wearing a gauzy bonnet and silky shawl (corner trimming). Philadelphia: Broadbent & Phillips, ca 1871. Photographers' large pictorial imprint on verso along with inscription reading, "Lucretia Mott / Taken 1871." -- Vignetted bust portrait of Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1807-1892) with sideburns (toning, soiling/discoloration). Hartford, CT: H. Webster & Co., n.d. Photographer's imprint on verso. -- Seated portrait of poet and abolition proponent William Cullen BRYANT (1794-1878) with full white beard and balding head (light toning, corners clipped). New York: E. & H. T. Anthony, n.d. Publisher's imprint on verso (with negative credit to Brady's Gallery) along with penciled identification. -- Vignetted seated portrait of abolitionist and women's rights activist Anna Elizabeth DICKINSON (1842-1932), captured from behind as she sits in a chair and looks just over her shoulder to one side (some toning, spotting, edges and corners clipped). New York: C. D. Fredricks & Co., n.d. Photographer's imprint on verso. -- Together, 4 CDVs.
Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey
This lot is located in Cincinnati.

