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Photo Album, 19th Century, American Presidents, Civil War Generals, Writers, International Statesman, and Others. Leather album containing: fifteen 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. commercially-produced cabinet cards, including images of Longfellow, Grover Cleveland, Edwin Booth, William McKinley, Dean Stanley, Charles Sumner, Emerson, William Warren, James Garfield, Andrew Jackson, Wendell Phillips, Whittier; and forty-three cartes-de-visite, including images of Washington Irving, General Grant, Garfield, Charles Guiteau, Abraham Lincoln (family portrait, single portrait, Lincoln embracing Washington, and Mary Todd Lincoln),Rutherford Hayes, Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Generals McClellan and Sherman, Major Anderson, Major General Rosecrans, Martha and George Washington, Queen Victoria, Joseph of Russia, Generals Grant, Butler, and Sheridan, Albert of England, Alexander Dumas, George Sand, Tom Thumb and Family, William Gladstone, and others; some pages with frames torn, cards vary, 10 1/4 x 8 in. overall.
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Martha Washington, Sherman, William McKinley, William Warren, McClellan, Grover Cleveland, William Gladstone, Wendell Phillips, Washington Irving, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Theodore Tilton, Henry Ward Beecher, Mary Todd Lincoln, Alexander Dumas, Charles Guiteau, Edwin Booth, George Sand, Anderson, Dean Stanley, Grant, United KingdomJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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