Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of 3 mounted photographs from Mathew Brady's "Incidents of the War." Albumen prints, various sizes but each larger than 6 x 9 inches, on original printed mounted; minor to moderate wear, professionally matted. Various places, images dated 1861-1863

Additional Details

Untitled view of the Bryan farm house at Gettysburg. 6½ x 9¼ inches on original mount numbered #214; partially erased early pencil caption. This house was used as a headquarters by General Hays during the battle, and still stands as part of the National Military Park; note the soldier's body in foreground. [July 1863].

"Matthews' House--Slocum's Grave--Battle Field Bull Run." 7¼ x 9 inches on original mount numbered #208; laid down on mat board. 1862.

"Camp Sprague, 1st R.I. Reg't." 11 x 14½ inches on different original mount with no number; toned, chipped in mount and slightly in image. 1861.

With--a mounted photograph from a different Brady series, "Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington, D.C.," 9½ x 13¼ inches, June 1866.