May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(SALTED PAPER PRINTS)
Group of 9 photographs of prominent regiments and military figures; 2 are signed. Salted paper (4) and albumen (5) prints, 6x8 to 12 1/2x10 1/4 inches (15.24x20.32 to 31.8x26 cm.) and the reverse, on the original mounts, 2 are signed on mount recto. 1861-65
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The 4 salted paper prints are: "Fairfield, Boys, Co. H, 7th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers" [View of members of an early New Jersey regiment, including brothers Benjamin F. and Elmer B. Ogden.] 1861 Unidentified Naval Officers on Union Vessel. Circa 1862 Captain Edmund/Edward Underwood 1862. [Captain Underwood was reported to have been killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.] 1863 Unidentified Union Infantry Officer (hand colored) Circa 1864.

Albumen prints: Major General "Birdseye" McPherson 1863(?) Signed. "McPherson killed in action during battle of Atlanta 7/22/64" Major General John Alexander Logan 'Black Jack' Signed, 1863(?) Jefferson Davis, President, CSA 1889. Image of War, vol. VI, p. 441. [This may have been the last photo before the death of Davis.] "General Horatio G. Wright and Staff, Cold Harbor, Virginia." 1864. By Mathew Brady. Image of War, vol. V, p. 102, Frassanito, Grant and Lee, p. 186, pl III-14. [General Wright was a Union VI Corps commander.] "Co. E 93rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Central Headquarter Guard, Army of the Potomac, Bra-ston Station, Virginia." 1863. By Alexander Gardner. Image of War, vol. III, p. 384 .