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Title: Photograph album of historic and famous people of the United States Author: ** Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: [c. 1860-80] Description: With 105 albumen photograph portraits, cut into oval shape, each approximately 1¼x1" and mounted on blank leaves inside album. 8vo. Full blind-stamped dark brown-maroon leather, front cover stamped in gilt and lettered "Autographs," all edges gilt. Interesting collection of historic and otherwise noteworthy people from the United States. Nearly all identified with handwritten namd below the photograph, all written in the same hand. Includes several U.S. politicians and presidents and reverends, with: Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President); Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) Illinois politician and 1860 nominee for President, best known for his debates with Lincoln; 15th U.S. President James Buchanan (1791–1868); William H. Seward (1801–1872) U.S. Secretary of State under Lincoln and Andrew Johnson; Governor Edwin D. Morgan (1811-1883) of New York & U.S. Senator; Senator B.F. Wade of Ohio; Governor J.A. King of New York; Bayard Taylor (1825-78) author of "El Dorado"; Francis Gravelet-alias Charles Blandin (1824-1897) considered the greatest 19th Century tightrope walker and the first to cross Niagara Falls on a 3 inch rope; actor Edwin Forrest (1806-1872); Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) clergyman and reformer and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin). Also, albumens from paintings of: George Washington, John Adams John Quincy Adams, Zackary Taylor, Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding defective and needs repair. Most of spine missing, binding split in half and nearly detached into two parts, edge wear; foxing and occasional tears to pages; some photos faded and other light wear, one with inked drawing over face near end; photos very good and clean; sold as is. Item number: 159976