(CIVIL WAR) Album containing more than 115 carte de visite p

Sale 2026 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 10,350

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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

WITH MANY SIGNED (CIVIL WAR)
Album containing more than 115 carte-de-visite portraits, including approximately 50 studies of Union soldiers, many signed by the sitter; copy portraits of Grant and Lincoln, a buffalo hunt, and more. Albumen prints, 31/2x21/4 inches (8.9x5.7 cm.), with photographers' credits printed on mounts recto or verso, some with cancelled tax stamps, and approximately 40 with the soldier's signature, in ink. 4to, pictorial morocco, with "Park House 1869" printed on the front cover, joints starting. 1860s

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This album was assembled by Captain Myles Walter Keogh. Keogh fought alongside General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, where he ultimately met his death. The album descended through Keogh's family and was purchased from Keogh's great nephew in 1986 by Dr. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, the renowned Custer collector.