Lot of 28, including 26 Civil War-era CDVs of generals, officers, and other notable figures of the period. The majority of the portraits are taken from life, with some printed after illustrations. Also with a railroad voucher, 4.75 x 2 in., issued in Grenada, Mississippi by a Confederate quartermaster, as well as a strip, 2.5 x 7.5 in., of two uncut engraved bust portraits of Confederate Generals William Hardee and Albert Sidney Johnston, distributed by Charles Magnus New York, New York. Subjects of particular interest include Lewis Payne (1844-1865), co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with "Payne - assassin." printed on verso; LaFayette Curry Baker (1826-1868), chief of the U.S. Federal Detective Police and director of Union intelligence and counterintelligence operations, with backmark of Sherman & Co., Brooklyn, NY; General Benjamin Alvord (1813-1884), with backmark of E.L. Eaton, Omaha, Nebraska; Colonel Timothy Ingraham, 38th Massachusetts, with backmark of Henry Ulke Washington, DC; and Lieutenant Harry Cushing, 4th US Artillery, with backmark of Alexander Gardner Washington, DC. Also with printed portraits of Robert Anderson Salmon P. Chase, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Holt, Winfield Scott, John Sedgwick, William H. Seward, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Stoneman, and more. Condition: CDVs with toning, scattered foxing, and wear to edges/corners.
Lot of 28, including 26 Civil War-era CDVs of generals, officers, and other notable figures of the period. The majority of the portraits are taken from life, with some printed after illustrations. Also with a railroad voucher, 4.75 x 2 in., issued in Grenada, Mississippi by a Confederate quartermaster, as well as a strip, 2.5 x 7.5 in., of two uncut engraved bust portraits of Confederate Generals William Hardee and Albert Sidney Johnston, distributed by Charles Magnus New York, New York. Subjects of particular interest include Lewis Payne (1844-1865), co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with "Payne - assassin." printed on verso; LaFayette Curry Baker (1826-1868), chief of the U.S. Federal Detective Police and director of Union intelligence and counterintelligence operations, with backmark of Sherman & Co., Brooklyn, NY; General Benjamin Alvord (1813-1884), with backmark of E.L. Eaton, Omaha, Nebraska; Colonel Timothy Ingraham, 38th Massachusetts, with backmark of Henry Ulke Washington, DC; and Lieutenant Harry Cushing, 4th US Artillery, with backmark of Alexander Gardner Washington, DC. Also with printed portraits of Robert Anderson Salmon P. Chase, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Holt, Winfield Scott, John Sedgwick, William H. Seward, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Stoneman, and more. Condition: CDVs with toning, scattered foxing, and wear to edges/corners.
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