Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
POWELL, GEORGE MAY & CO. (1835-1905)
"The Last Great National Leaders." Oval albumen print, 14x12 inches (35.6x30.5 cm.), with notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount recto. 1863; printed circa 1880

Additional Details

The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 43.

President Lincoln appears at the lower portion of the montage, Hannibal Hamlin at top, senators on the perimeter, representatives in the interior and the speaker of the house in the center. The montage was sold by Civil War veterans.