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Sale 2687 - Lot 79

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Carte-de-visite album of mostly Confederate Civil War notables including Davis and Lee. 21 photographs, two engravings of similar size, and a clipped signature, all inserted into a period carte-de-visite album. 8vo, original embossed calf with clasp, staining and moderate wear; minor soiling and wear, a bit musty. Various places, circa 1861-1868
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Notable subjects include Jefferson Davis (unmounted, no backmark); Generals Robert E. Lee and G.T . Beauregard (with E. & H.T. Anthony New York backmarks); Admiral Semmes; General Joseph Johnson, Stonewall Jackson (printed on verso simply "Stonewall Jackson, C.S.A.); General J.E.B. Stuart (with an Anderson & Turner New Orleans backmark); General Franklin Gardner (by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York); Captain McNally of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry (handcolored, no backmark but bearing an 1868 revenue stamp); an archbishop; Mrs. Beauregard; a man in civilian dress misidentified as General Hardee (S. Anderson of New Orleans backmark); "1st Baptist Church, Baton Rouge in 1865" (A.D. Lytle of Baton Rouge backmark); an unidentified woman, hand-colored (Feiger & Platts of Pomeroy, OH backmark); Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan (B.L.H. Dabbs backmark); Generals A.P. Hill and Longstreet (no backmarks); a card signed "Yours truly James Longstreet"; "Church at Wilmington, N.C." (Quinby of Charleston , SC backmark); a photograph of a satirical lithograph of Union General Benjamin Butler titled "Grand Federal Menagerie: The Great Massachusetts Hyena" (no backmark); Vice President Alexander Stephens (Knight & Eales backmark); and an unnamed baby with 1863 gift inscription (Anderson of New Orleans backmark).

Laid in is a trimmed carte-de-visite of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner on 24 February 1861 (Ostendorf O-51), and here reprinted on a Civil War-era mount by C. Marmu of New Orleans, captioned in pencil on verso "Our late president Abraham Lincoln, the martyr of our age." The only other Union subject is an engraved portrait of General McClellan.

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