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(ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 130 items Signed, by musicians, abolitionists, writers, educators, and others, kept by F.L. Bardeen while instructor at Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, NY, each including mostly brief inscription and/or date, many calligraphic decorative drawings of ribbons or animals by Bardeen or others. Most inscribed one to a page on both recto and verso, some visiting cards or strips of paper mounted with others on a page, nearly all identified in ink, often at lower edge, presumably in Bardeen's hand. Oblong 12mo, morocco with gilt-title on front ("F.L. Bardeen / Autographs / E.B.C."); all edges gilt, minor scattered soiling, a few pages affected by offsetting. Vp, 1864-72
Harvey Gridley Eastman, president and founder of Eastman Business College ("Be just and fear not / HGEastman / 29 Feb'y 1865") • Ulysses S. Grant ("US Grant, Washington D.C."), on slip of paper • Ambrose Burnside ("A.E. Burnside, President R[hode] I[sland Locomotive Works]"), on slip of paper • Charles Sumner, on same slip of paper with Edwin E. Morgan ("E.D. Morgan"), both in pencil • William Ewart Gladstone ("WEGladstone"), on slip of paper • John T. Hoffman, on slip of paper • Gerrit Smith • Thomas O. Osborn ("Tho. O. Osborne / Brig Gen'l / Ill") • P.T. Barnum ("Truly Yours / PT Barnum / Po'keepsie Jan'y 6/65") • Edward Ord ("E.O.C. Ord / M[ajor] Gen'l") • Zachariah Chandler ("Z. Chandler / Mich") • Paul Du Chaillu ("P.B. Du Chaillu") • Hannibal Hamlin ("Yours Truly / H. Hamlin / Bangor / Maine") • Ole Bull • Winfield Scott. 1865 • Wendell Phillips (". . . [N]ever / opposed till now / Wendell Phillips") • Josh Billings ("'Giv me liberty, or giv me deth'--but / ov the two, I prefer the liberty") • Frederick A.P. Barnard ("F.A.P. Barnard"), on slip of paper • Horace Greeley • Ralph Waldo Emerson ("R.W. Emerson") • Benson John Lossing ("Very truly yours / Benson J. Lossing / Poughkeepsie N.Y. / March, 1865") • George Francis Train ("Sincerely / GeoFrancisTrain"), on slip of paper • Theodore Tilton ("I am for the equal civil & political / rights of all American citizens, without / distinction of color or sex / Theodore Tilton / Po'keepsie, Dec 4/68") • Carl Schurz ("Truly yours / C. Schurz") • Samuel F.B. Morse ("With kind wishes / Y'rs truly / Sam. F.B. Morse / Locust Grove / June 17, 1870") • Oliver Wendell Holmes. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, "OWHolmes," declining to lecture at Eastman College, trimmed at edges truncating each line of text along left edge and mounted to page. Boston, 1 December 1866 • Matthew Vassar ("Matthew Vassar / Poughkeepsie / New York") • Anna Elizabeth Dickinson ("Yours Very Truly / Anna E. Dickinson / 11.27. / 1868") • Johann Strauss, on a visiting cart • David Ross Locke ("David R. Locke / Petroleum V. Nasby, P[ost] M[aster]") • others.
