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7 Civil War Era CDVs inc slaves, presidents

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Civil War CDV Album, incl. Presidents, Union &: Civil War era album containing fifty (50) cartes-de-visite (CDVs), including thirty-two (32) lithographed images of engravings and eighteen (18) photographic images, depicting Presidents, Presidential

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4 "Slave Children of New Orleans" CDVs: Four (4) Civil War era Cartes de Visite depicting "slave children" from Union-occupied New Orleans. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) CDVs depicting Rebecca Huger, one captioned "Oh! How I Love the Old Flag", on

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Rare CDV's of Confederate President Jeff Davis and his: Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Davis, both CDV's are civil war era.

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Civil War Jefferson Davis Signed Letter to Robert E. Lee, May 1864: Civil War era ALS. One-page bifolium handwritten autographed letter signed by Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) as president of the Confederate States of America (CSA) from 1861 to 1865, Richmond, Vir

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Robert E. Lee CDVs, incl. Anthony and Brady Marks and signed $20 CSA bill, total fifteen (15) items: Photograph album containing fourteen (14) carte de visite (CDV) depicting Lee, including eight (8) depicting bust portraits of Lee in his Civil War era Confederate uniform, three (3) with studio marks

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CSA Gen. J. C. Breckinridge Signed Letter to Brig. Gen. Thomas Gordan, 1862: Civil War era ALS. One page handwritten letter from Major General John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875), the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861, and C

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2 Nashville Civil War Letters + MS Newspaper: 2 Nashville-related Civil War Documents, 1 signed by future U.S. president Andrew Johnson (Secretarial signed), the other written at Fort Confiscation, and 1 Mississippi Civil War era newspaper. 1st i

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CIVIL WAR ERA PROMCLAIMATION HONORING JOHN O'BRIEN: CIVIL WAR ERA MASSACHUSETTS PROMCLAMATION HONORING JOHN O'BRIEN U.S. NAVY FOR SUPRESSING THE REBELLION 1870 SIGNED BY GOVENOR WILLIAM CLAFLIN & ATTORNEY GENRAL. PRESIDENT LINCOLN DEPICTED ON PROCLAIMA

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(8) CDVs, 4" x 2 1/2", Civil war era, all: related to President Lincoln. 1) "Abraham Lincoln, the Late President" shows chipping to the edges. 2) Abraham Lincoln in an oval window. 3) Lincoln, shows foxing. 4) Lincoln taken by Clifford & Shapl

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12 Confederate CDVS inc. Walter Bowie: CDVS of ten Civil War Confederate Generals plus CSA Captain Walter Bowie of Virginia and Tennessee. Images include Kirby Smith, John Hunt Morgan, Thomas J. Jackson (a.k.a. Stonewall Jackson ), Sidney

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3 Civil War era CDV's and 1864 pocket Bible: 3 Civil War era CDV images of William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, Johnny Clem "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" standing with a musket, a framed CDV of General William "Baldy" Smith and a 4" x

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Sixteen (16) Civil War Era CDVs: Sixteen (16) Civil War Era CDVsmilitary subjects to include: Major General George B. McClellan, J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston backmark (foxing to the print); Major Robert Anderson, E. Anthony, New York b

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Civil War era Album, inc. Union Army/Naval Officers': Civil War-era tooled leather and brass bound album of forty-nine (49) photographic images, including forty-seven (47) cartes-de-viste, fifteen (15) depicting various Union Army and Naval officers and

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7 Civil War Era CDVs inc slaves, presidents

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Description

Grouping of 7 Cartes de visite including two (2) depicting slave children from New Orleans; two (2) depicting George and Martha Washington; one (1) depicting Abraham Lincoln reading to his son; one (1) depicting a hat maker; plus one (1) other. This lot also includes a calling card for Moore & Ritchie Florists in Philadelphia, PA and a small engraving of Salmon P. Chase.

Condition

Four CDVs have cut corners. The Abraham Lincoln CDV has wear to the edges. One of the slave children CDVs has slight wear to upper margin. The Salmon P. Chase engraving has losses to the upper right corner.