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Lot 50
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[CIVIL WAR]. A collection of 90 stereoviews from "The War for the Union" series. E. & H.T. Anthony, New York.
90 stereoviews on cardstock mounts, most rectos with Anthony's "The War for the Union" series title. Versos with applied paper label listing image number, title, and occasional credit to the photographer. Content includes camp life, battlefields, forts, ships, artillery, landmarks, ceremonies such as the Grand Review, African American subjects, and more.
Highlighted titles include: Union Picket line in front of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation," Richmond, Va. -- Monitor Canonicus, on the James River, taking in Coal. -- Signal Tower, Cobb's Hill, Appomattox River, Va -- View from the Parapet of Ft. Sumpter, S.C., on the day of the raising of the old Flag. -- Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. -- Interior of Redoubt Zabriskie on Cobb's Hill; wounded rebel picket in the foreground; Rebel picket hill in the distance. -- View of Fort Sumpter, showing the debris, shot, shell, and broken guns. -- Distant View of Belle Plain Landing, James River, Va. -- Gen. Grant's Rail road, City Point, Va, Soldier's Quarters on the Hill. -- Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. -- Interior of the Rebel Fort Darling, James River, near Richmond, Va. -- The place where Maj. Gen. J.B. McPherson was killed, Atlanta, Ga. -- The Seminary at Gettysburgh. -- Interior of Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, S.C., April 14th, 1865, during the ceremony of raising the old Flag. -- Woods on the left wing, Battle of Gettysburgh. -- Breastworks on left wing, Battle of Gettysburg. -- Great Siege Train at Yorktown, Va. -- Burial of dead at Fredericksburgh, Va. -- Capt. Perkin's "Secesh" Horse, captured at Cornwallis Cave, Yorktown, Va. -- Fort Brady, James River, Virginia. This view shows the detachments at the guns ready for action. A "signal corps" officer is on the parapet in the act of transmitting a message to headquarters. -- Dismantling of the Rebel Forts after the storming of Petersburgh, Va. -- View in Water Battery, James River, Va. Ready to fire. -- The Army of the Potomac. The Stand in front of the President's House occupied by the President and Cabinet, Grant and Sherman, and Reviewing Officers. -- And 67 others.
Together, 90 stereoviews, the majority published by E. & H.T. Anthony.
Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey
This lot is located in Cincinnati.






