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Lot 338
[CIVIL WAR]. CDV album featuring generals, officers, and other prominent figures incl. Generals Winfield SCOTT, Robert ANDERSON, Ambrose BURNSIDE, and Abner DOUBLEDAY.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati

Estimate
$500 - 700
Lot Description
[CIVIL WAR]. CDV album featuring generals, officers, and other prominent figures incl. Generals Winfield SCOTT, Robert ANDERSON, Ambrose BURNSIDE, and Abner DOUBLEDAY.
4 x 5 1/2 in. album containing 25 CDVs of mostly Civil War-era military and political leaders, enlisted men, and other subjects, including 15 photographic images and 10 engravings (CDVs with toning and soiling, many with significant clipping, some with significant wear; areas of surface wear to album). Photographic images include a full standing portrait of Abner Doubleday wearing Captain's shoulder straps and holding a hat with crossed cannon insignia by Brady/Anthony; a seated portrait of Ambrose Burnside wearing brigadier general's shoulder straps and frock coat by D. Appleton & Co., New York, with period ink identification on verso; seated copy portrait of of Winfield Scott as a lieutenant general in full dress uniform including epaulettes by J. Gurney & Son, New York; full standing portrait of Robert Anderson in uniform by Brady/Anthony; photograph of a John Rogers sculpture group titled "The Town Pump" by M. Stadtfeld, New York; and others.

Engraved images include portraits of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, William T. Sherman, George McClellan, "Washington & Lincoln (Apotheosis)," and others.

Together, 25 CDVs housed in a single album, highlighted by from-life portraits of Civil War generals.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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