[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [TEXAS]. [DE PLANQUE, Louis, photographer]. CDV of steamboats on the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas. Ca 1865.
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $469
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [TEXAS]. [DE PLANQUE, Louis, photographer]. CDV of steamboats on the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas. Ca 1865.
2 1/8 x 3 11/16 in. CDV on lightweight cardstock mount (soiling to image and mount, wear including some loss to mount edges and corners). Verso bears pencil inscription reading, "Brownsville, Texas by Louis de Planque / Levee St & Rio Grande River ca. 1865." Buildings line Levee Street to the right side of the photograph, and a pair of men stand on the river bank near the center of the image, where ferries crossed to Matamoros, Mexico. A companion image to this one is featured in Thompson & Jones' Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier, a Narrative and Photographic History (page 23).
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