Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EPHEMERA.) Group of ephemera relating to the 1909 centennial of Lincoln's birth. 39 items in box, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1908-18

Additional Details

"100 Photographs from the Collection of Osborn H. Oldroyd--The Centenary of Abraham Lincoln's Birth." Poster, 35 x 26 inches. Np, 1908 "The Lincoln Centenary Committee of New York City." Photomechanical image, 10 x 14 inches to sight. Np, 1908 Small Lincoln photogravure from the Boston Traveler 28 Lincoln postcards, most from the centennial "Lincoln, New Birth of Our New Soil." New York, 1908 "New York State Education Department Lincoln Centenary." Albany, 1909 "The Centenary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Program of Exercises." Washington: Oldroyd, 1908 "Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of . . . the Birth of Abraham Lincoln." Springfield, IL, 1918 "Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society . . . Lincoln Centenary Number." Lancaster, PA, 1909 Centennial commemoration program, Syracuse, NY, 1909 "Lincoln 1809 1909," small pamphlet by Thorp & Martin Co. E.T. Paull, "Lincoln Centennial Grand March" sheet music. Richmond, VA, 1909. These items were collected by Holzer a century later during his 8 years as co-chair of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton.