Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PRESIDENTS--1885.) Gilman, John G.; photographer. "Last Photograph of Gen. Grant, Four Days before Death." Albumen photograph, 4 x 6 inches, on card mount with printed caption; mount trimmed to within photograph, tack holes in bottom corners; copyright date of 22 July 1885 within negative. (TFC) [Mt. McGregor, NY: Gilman, 1885]
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President Grant is shown reading a newspaper on his porch. Provenance: Anna Baine Dent (1839-1933), sister-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant, by descent to her great-great-granddaughter; Alexander sale, 18 October 2000, to the Forbes Collection. with--a 1953 clipping illustrated with another photograph from the same sitting and a photocopy of a 2000 affidavit from a Dent descendant.