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Lot 223
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$400 -
600
Price Realized
$366
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Lot Description
[GARDNER, Alexander]. 7 CDVs of Gardner's family and associates, incl. Philp, Addis, and Smith.
7 photographs of family and associates of famed photographer Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), comprised of 6 CDVs and a 3 x 2 1/2 in. photograph on a 3 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. cardstock mount.
Subjects include: CDV of Jean Glenn Gardner, Alexander Gardner's mother. Verso with imprint of "Gardner, No. 511 7th St., Washington, DC," ca 1868. -- CDV, seated portrait of Eliza Gardner, daughter of Alexander Gardner. Verso with imprint of "Alex. Gardner, Photographer, No. 511 Seventh Street, Washington, DC," ca 1870. Published in Katz, p. 271. -- CDV of unidentified gentleman with same ca 1870 imprint of "Alex. Gardner, Photographer, No. 511 Seventh Street, Washington, DC." -- CDV of Franklin Philp, partner in Philp & Solomons Bookstore, 332 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC, publisher of Brady and Gardner photographs. Signed below portrait, "Franklin Philp," with "Washington, DC, Feby. 14(?) / 66" inscribed on mount. Verso imprint of "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac," published by Philp & Solomons. -- CDV of Robert W. Addis, photographer. Addis operated McClees Gallery in Washington, DC, in 1860, then opened his own gallery during the early 1860s. He then ran Addis and Koch Gallery in San Francisco in 1865, but returned to Washington DC in 1870. He died unexpectedly ca 1873. Verso imprint of "Alex. Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac," published by Philp & Solomons. Ink stamp and 3-cent US Internal Revenue stamp on verso. -- CDV, seated portrait of William Morris Smith, photographer who worked for Brady then Gardner in Washington, DC. Uncredited, possibly signed on verso, "Fraternally, W. Morris Smith." -- View of an unidentified man seated at a table, possibly an artist based on the various sketches that surround him. Verso imprint of "P & S" [Philp & Solomon] "Metropolitan Gallery," Washington, DC.
Together, 7 photographs.
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This lot is located in Cincinnati.

