Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of 8 photographs of Richmond in the immediate aftermath of the war. Albumen photographs, some mounted, with minor to moderate wear, one with tape repairs on verso; all captioned on verso or in margins, 4 with inked stamps on verso from L.C. Handy Studios, Washington, others noted with Handy numbers in pencil, 4 bearing inked stamps of collector W.J. Kaland. (TFC) [Richmond, VA, 1865]

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"Ruins of paper mill & arsenal" "Arsenal at Richmond after fire" "Canal at Crenshaw Mills, ruins" (2 prints) "The fallen Confederate Capitol in 1865" "Richmond after surrender" (from Brady Studio, see Mr. Lincoln's Cameraman, page 197) " Richmond Penitentiary" "Ruins of Richmond." Provenance: Swann sale, 23 March 1985, lot 247.