Oct 20, 2005 - Sale 2053

Sale 2053 - Lot 7

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(CIVIL WAR)
Album containing 92 cartes-de-visite and tintypes, with portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, more than 15 Union Generals, politicians, teachers at Andover, figures associated with the Civil War, Emperor Maximilian, and family photographs. Folio, morocco, with brass fleur-de-lys ornamentation on front cover; gilt and midnight blue fleur-de-lys painting on foredge; brass clasps. 1861-64

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This beautifully bound album contains portraits of Union Generals Scott, Grant, Butler, Burnside, Banks, Bragg McClellan, Meade, Morgan, Sprague, Worth, Dowell, and Pym; Cols. Farragut, Kurtz, Lander, and Chickering; Confederate Gen. Beauregard; as well as pictures of Miss Kellogg, Maximilian, and an interesting picture of a mechanical instrument.