Feb 11, 2010 - Sale 2202

Sale 2202 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) Group Photograph Signed, by William McKinley, and the 11 other officials present at the signing of the Protocol of Peace closing the Spanish-American War, image by Johnston, showing the Cabinet Room (today, the "Treaty Room") of the White House where President McKinley stands beside seated French Ambassador Jules Cambon and Secretary of State William R. Day in the act of signing as U.S. representative, surrounded by witnesses. Signed on the mount below the image. Photographer's imprint in the image, lower right. Approximately 12 1/2x15 1/2 inches (image), approximately 16 1/2x20 1/2 inches overall; faint dampstaining along bottom edge affecting signatures of Montgomery and Cortelyou and Caden and Day, Loeffler signature written through photographer's pencil signature at bottom right, scattered loss to emulsion at top and bottom right; matted and framed. Np, [circa 1898]

Additional Details

From the left, Benjamin F. Montgomery ("Benj. F. Montgomery"), Eugène Thiébaut ("Thiébaut"), Henry Clarke Corbin ("H.C. Corbin"), John Bassett Moore ("J.B. Moore"), Alvey A. Adee, George B. Cortelyou ("Geo. B. Cortelyou"), Octavius L. Pruden ("O.L. Pruden"), Thomas W. Cridler ("Tho. W. Cridler"), and Charles Loeffler ("Chas. Loeffler").