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THBPlimpton Family of Massachusetts, CDV Album Incl. Private Theodore Plimpton, 11th Massachusetts Light Artillery
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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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Leather album, 5 x 6 in., containing 49 CDVs, most showing members of the Plimpton family of Massachussetts, as well as friends and colleagues, many identified in pencil on each album page. Several of the cartes are credited to Boston photographers, such as Whipple, Black, Horton, and Boynton & Co.
Images of note include a war-date CDV of Private Theodore A. Plimpton in uniform, seated in a studio setting, backmark of J.W. Black, Boston, MA. Plimpton enlisted on 12/29/63 as a private and mustered into the 11th Massachusetts Light Artillery on 1/2/64; mustered out on 6/16/65 at Camp Meigs, Readville, MA. Civilian view by J.W. Black of Corporal George T. Picket, who enlisted as a private on 3/30/64 and mustered into Co. K, 57th Massachusetts Infantry six days later; POW, Fort Stedman, VA, 3/25/65; held at Libby Prison until exchanged 3/29/65; returned 5/11/65 at unknown location; mustered out on 6/12/65. CDV of University of Michigan Professor Warren P. Lombard (1855-1939) as a young boy, by Silsbee, Case & Co, Boston. Lombard published many works as a professor of Physiology at the institution.
Range in condition. Light to moderate toning to cartes. Some light spotting on CDV of Plimpton. Image of Picket has lightened a bit, with few spots. CDV of Lombard, mount trimmed along top edge.Condition
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