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Lot 165
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
$800 -
1,500
Price Realized
$793
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Collection of glass negatives featuring Civil War officers and other subjects.
A collection of approx. 24 glass plate negatives, most approx. 3 x 4 in. or smaller, likely later copies of original negatives by wartime photographers like Mathew Brady, etc. Includes:
8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. glass negative featuring the execution of Andersonville Commandant Henry Wirz. -- Smaller portraiture including subjects: 11th New York Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Spencer H. Stafford. -- 11th new York Cavalry Colonel James B. Swain. -- 68th New York Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Albert von Steinhausen. -- 9th New York Infantry Colonel Rush C. Hawkins. -- 24th new York Infantry Colonel Timothy Sullivan. -- General Julius Stahel. -- General Henry W. Slocum. -- CSA General Joseph Wheeler. -- CSA General James F. Fagan. -- CSA General Roswell S. Ripley. -- And many others, including non-military or non-Civil War subjects such as George and Martha Washington, Horace Greeley, and British statesman the Earl of Derby. -- Together, 24 individual plates.
Property of Kris and Alicia Huffman, SuddElle Farms at Clover Hill, Lenoir, North Carolina



