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THBCivil War-Era CDV Album of Prominent American Personalities, including Union & Confederate Generals, Politicians, and More
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About Auction
LiveJun 22, 2018
Cowan’s American History: Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, 2018 is comprised of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags, and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Album, approx. 9 x 11.25 x 3 in., containing 192 CDVs, most credited to E. & H. T. Anthony and Mathew Brady. The majority are "from life" photographs, but the album also includes images of engravings/lithographs. Album features images of U. S. Presidents, Civil War generals, politicians, writers, artists, performers, and other notable figures. Highlights include:
Presidents: James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, and Andrew Johnson.
Civil War Generals: (Union) Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott, Ambrose Burnside, Irvin McDowell, Benjamin Butler, Robert Anderson, Henry Halleck, Michael Corcoran, William J. Hardee, George Meade, Winfield Scott Hancock, Nathaniel P. Banks, Elmer E. Ellsworth, John A. Logan, Franz Siegel, William Tecumseh Sherman, Admiral David Farragut, George B. McClellan, and Daniel Sickles; (CSA) Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee.
Politicians: DeWitt Clinton, Stephen A. Douglas, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Governor William Sprague IV, Edward Everett, Charles Sumner, Roger B. Taney, Horace Greeley, Brigham Young, Sam Houston, and Gerrit Smith.
Writers: James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bayard Taylor, Elisha Kent Kane, William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow, J. G. Holland, and Mary Louise Booth (first editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar).
Actors: Edwin Booth, Margaret Mitchell, and Charlotte Cushman.
Artists: Thomas Nast and Samuel F. B. Morse.
Other performers: General Tom Thumb and his wife, African-American little person, "Black Tom," and "The Fat Woman."
Other notable individuals: Henry Ward Beecher (2), John Wilkes Booth, Cyrus West Field (helped create the Atlantic Telegraph Company), Elisha Kent Kane (American explorer, writer, and medical officer in US Navy), P. T. Barnum, Kit Carson, Maria "Belle" Boyd (a notorious Confederate spy), Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, and James Fisk Jr. (noted Wall Street tycoon and "robber baron").
Album covers fully separated from binding, binding with breakage and separation, most pages partially separated from binding, some pages with paper loss, and heavy wear throughout. Clasps still intact.Condition
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