Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Rogers & Raymond's Clothing Warehouse catalogue. 4 full-page color illustrations. [8] pages. 16mo, unbound; first and final leaves detached, minor wear and soiling; early owner's name in pencil on first page. New York: T.W. Strong, circa 1863
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This clothing catalogue is of interest for two reasons. It begins with an illustration of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb, the circus performers who were married in February 1863; on the second page is a related poem titled "The Fairy Wedding." The store was very near Barnum's American Museum, Tom Thumb's main haunt; both the store and the museum would be destroyed by a fire in July 1865.
The pamphlet is also of Civil War interest, with a cadet's uniform illustrated on page 5, an illustration of General Burnside wearing their uniform on the rear cover, and a long poem titled "the Generals of the Union," boasting that the Generals Burnside, McClellan, Hooker, Sigel, and Butler all shopped at "Rogers & Raymond, the true Union tailors." None traced in OCLC or at auction, and possibly a unique survival.