Lot 54A
[CIVIL WAR]. BRADY, Mathew, photographer. Exceptional album containing 120 CDVs of Union generals and officers, incl. Joshua Chamberlain and George A. Custer. New York, NY: E. & H.T. Anthony, 1860s.
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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[CIVIL WAR]. BRADY, Mathew, photographer. Exceptional album containing 120 CDVs of Union generals and officers, incl. Joshua Chamberlain and George A. Custer. New York, NY: E. & H.T. Anthony, 1860s.
4to, full-navy morocco album, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt lettered "album" in 1, with 4 bone foliate bosses to each board (minor scuffing, spine sunned). Album contains 120 cartes de visite of Union generals, 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. or smaller, on cardstock mounts, most credited to Mathew Brady and/or E. & H.T. Anthony, although examples by Charles D. Fredricks & Co. (New York, NY), J.E. McClees (Philadelphia, PA), and other photographers are also included. Many with 2-cent revenue stamps affixed to mount versos. Condition generally very good to excellent, with many nearly untouched, some with corner/edge wear.
The subjects, identified in pencil on verso and on album pages, include: Winfield Scott. -- George McClellan. -- U.S. Grant. -- W.T. Sherman. -- George Meade. -- Joseph Hooker. -- Philip Sheridan. -- Henry Halleck. -- Benjamin Butler. -- Nathaniel Banks. -- John Ellis Wool. -- John Adams Dix. -- Ambrose Burnside (after lithograph/engraving). -- John Fremont (after lithograph/engraving). -- Irvin McDowell. -- Don Carlos Buell. -- Edwin Sumner. -- Philip Kearny (lithograph/engraving). -- O.M. Mitchel. - William S. Rosecrans. -- J.S. Wadsworth. -- Erasmus Keyes. -- Fitz John Porter. -- David Hunter. -- S.R. Curtis. -- John Sedgwick. -- William S. Harney. -- John G. Foster. -- O.O. Howard. -- Henry W. Slocum. -- William F. "Baldy" Smith. -- Andrew Porter. -- Winfield Scott Hancock. -- Alexander McCook. -- Horatio G. Wright. -- George Stoneman. -- William J. Worth. -- C.F. Smith. -- Gordon Granger. -- E.A. Hitchcock. -- Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. -- Wesley Merritt. -- David M. Gregg. -- George A. Custer. -- George H. Thomas. -- James B. McPherson (possibly after lithograph/engraving). -- Quincy Adams Gillmore (after lithograph/engraving). -- J.F. Reynolds, KIA Gettysburg. -- John N. Brannan. -- Jeff C. Davis (after lithograph/engraving). -- Robert Anderson. -- Jesse Lee Reno. -- Montgomery Meigs. -- E.D. Townsend. -- John A. Rawlins. -- G.K. Warren. -- Alexander S. Webb, MOH Gettysburg. -- Thomas L. Kane. -- Frederick Winthrop. -- Marsena Rudolph Patrick. -- George Sykes. -- Rufus Ingalls. -- Samuel D. Sturgis. -- Theodore Runyon. -- Thomas J. Wood. -- Nelson Taylor. -- Nathan Kimball.
E.R.S. Canby. -- Nelson Miles. -- Daniel Craig McCallum. -- David Hunter Strother. -- Francis Fessenden. -- John W. Geary. -- Thomas C. Devin. -- George Crook. -- James B. Fry. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, MOH Gettysburg. -- A.B. Eaton. -- Lysander Cutler. -- Cuvier Grover. -- Seth Eastman. -- Henry Baxter. -- G.A. DeRussy. -- William A. Hammond. -- Alvin P. Hovey. -- Duncan Lamont Clinch. -- Sylvester Churchill. -- Walter C. Whitaker. -- John Wynn Davidson. -- Brigadier General Rosenthal (?). -- Jacob Lauman. -- J.C. Caldwell. -- J.G. Robinson. -- James S. Robinson. -- James L. Kiernan. -- Samuel S. Carroll. -- J.C. Robinson. -- Joseph F. Knipe. -- Albert L. Lee. -- Colonel Roberts (?), Michigan. -- George Washington Deitzler. -- Thomas Ewing. -- John S. Mason. -- Francis C. Barlow. -- Seth Williams. -- Robert Williams. -- John M. Corse. -- William P. Carlin. -- George Henry Gordon. -- Richard W. Johnson. -- M.M. Crocker. -- Orlando M. Poe. -- Calvin E. Pratt. -- Lucius Fairchild. --Leonard Fulton Ross. -- John Blair Smith Todd. -- Alfred W. Ellet. -- Colonel Frederick George D'Utassy with flag. -- Colonel Farnham (?). -- Colonel Berdan (after lithograph/engraving). -- Elmer Ellsworth (after lithograph/engraving).
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