(CARTES DE VISITE) Artful album containing approximately 500

Sale 2026 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,265

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(CARTES-DE-VISITE)
Artful album containing approximately 500 mostly carte-de-visite-size photographs of a panoply of subjects, comprising portraits of notables such as Queen Victoria; a tintype copy photograph of the Lincoln clan; American Civil War Generals, Rosencrans, Sumner, McClellan, Tyler, and Burnside; numerous Scottish military officers; a male actor in female garb, sporting images of cricket players, golfers, hunters, and snowshoers; views of Washington, D. C., Cambridge, Montreal, Niagara, England, and many more. Albumen prints, one salt print, and tintypes, 3/4x1/2 to 81/4x101/2 inches (1.9x1.2 to 21x26.7 cm.), one to 12 per page recto/verso, with intricate hand-drawn borders, drawings, and captions on the mounts. 4to, red morocco, covers detached, lacking spine. 1860s-70s

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A lovely, affectionately composed album with each photograph trimmed and pasted into various patterns on the page and adorned with the owner's drawings and designs.