(CABINET CARDS) Album containing 20 cabinet cards of importa

Sale 1925 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 3,220

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500

(CABINET CARDS)<>
Album containing 20 cabinet cards of important Civil War figures, American presidents, western scenes and performers; one by Brady (with a handwritten credit). Albumen (15), printing-out paper (4), and silver (1) prints, 5 3/4x4 inches and the reverse, on the original gilt-imprinted mounts, several with handwritten period captions on mount verso. Small 4to, morocco, rubbed, brass clasp and fittings; all edges gilt. 1870s-80s

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Includes a Brady portrait of Lincoln; the Battlefield at Wounded Knee; studies of Generals Grant, Sherman, Scott and staff, and Admiral Farragut; plus Beecher, Rutherford B. and Mrs. Hays (with her handwritten calling card), Garfield, John Logan; and western figures, including Roaster Medicine Man (Sioux), a rifleman, a sheriff, and other performers sporting rifles, pistols, and gauntlets.<