Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CARTES-DE-VISITE) american
Group of more than 70 portraits of American personalities featuring an additional 75 studies of members of the Vanderbilt family and social circle. Albumen prints, many with contemporary notations, in pencil, on mount verso and the photographers' imprints. 1860s

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The lot features Edwin Booth, Salmon Chase, Rufus Choate, Henry Clay, James F. Cooper, Ralph W. Emerson, Gov. Fenton, Robt. Swain Gifford, Nellie Grant, Horace Greeley, Edward E. Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mayor Hoffman, John F. Kensett, Henry W. Longfellow (4), James Russell Lowell, Hiram Powers, Wendell Phillips (3), Charles O'Connor, Dr. Peabody, Carl Schurz, Horatio Seymour, Edwin Stanton, Charles Sumner, Daniel Webster, J. Whittier (2), and many other literary, political, and artistic figures.