Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Taylor, S.; et al. $15 Fifteen Dollars Will Exempt from the Draft! Letterpress broadside, 19 x 12 inches; folds, toning, corner-mounted to modern board. New York: Baker & Goodwin, 26 January 1864

Additional Details

A broadside issued by the town of Greenburgh, NY in Westchester County, which includes the better-known villages of Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, and Tarrytown. It announces that the town would take $15 payments from men hoping to avoid the draft, and find substitutes for them. No other copies traced in OCLC or at auction.