Lot of 3 CDVs. Carte of civilian side-wheel steamboat bearing the name "Lady Gay" painted on the paddle covers. T.W. Bankes: Helena, AR, n.d. Lady Gay wasn't launched until 1865, too late to have participated in significant wartime service. It is mentioned that she "carried a dispatch for the US Navy in May '65." The steamboat is enormous with three levels of staterooms shown to good advantage at the stern. Just behind her towering twin funnels is an opulent open air belfry structure that must have afforded a magnificent view of the Mississippi. Painted on the paddle covers above Lady Gay is either a standing lady or champagne-like bottle that defies identification even under magnification. CDV of unidentified side-wheel gunboat. T.W. Bankes: Helena, AR, n.d. She has twin funnels amidships and distinctive boxed over paddles. Near the bow on her roof is a navy boat howitzer with scattered crew gazing at the photographer, presumably on shore. CDV of the tinclad stern wheeler USS Prairie Bird based on an identical photograph published online. Uncredited: n.d. The gunboat (No. 11) was taken up from the civilian trade, converted at Cairo and commissioned in January 1863. She spent the entire war with the Mississippi Squadron mostly engaged in patrolling and convey escort duties. In April 1864 she saw action at Yazoo City in support of army operations during the Red River Campaign. Later in the summer of 1864 she seized a steamer "for violation of revenue laws" and rescued several hundred 10th Missouri cavalrymen from the steamer B.M. Runyon that ran on to a snag and sank near Griffith's Landing, below Greenville, Mississippi. Prairie Bird was decommissioned at Mound City in July 1865 and sold out of service. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Lots 133-162 Cowan's is pleased to offer the first contingent of an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors and Mississippi Marine Brigade images, and, significantly, many views of unique Brown Water Navy sidewheel and sternwheel warships - no two vessels looking exactly the same. Subjectively, the most appealing aspect of the Cohen Collection are the photographs of these gunboats, transports, and impressed vessels quickly converted at St. Louis, Cairo, and Cincinnati for duty on the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The gamut of improvised warships range from the earliest types of steam powered vessels first taken up by the Army to create a small timberclad flotilla, to the several purpose-built War Department Ellet rams, and later, the more numerous classes of tinclads, some converted but all built for and crewed by the Navy. A few captured Confederate vessels impressed into Union service are also present. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Lady Gay with average clarity, some toning and clipped corners. Mounted over card stock with oval cutout for portrait that bled through the albumen, G+. CDV of unidentified vessel with above average clarity, uniform toning
Lot of 3 CDVs. Carte of civilian side-wheel steamboat bearing the name "Lady Gay" painted on the paddle covers. T.W. Bankes: Helena, AR, n.d. Lady Gay wasn't launched until 1865, too late to have participated in significant wartime service. It is mentioned that she "carried a dispatch for the US Navy in May '65." The steamboat is enormous with three levels of staterooms shown to good advantage at the stern. Just behind her towering twin funnels is an opulent open air belfry structure that must have afforded a magnificent view of the Mississippi. Painted on the paddle covers above Lady Gay is either a standing lady or champagne-like bottle that defies identification even under magnification. CDV of unidentified side-wheel gunboat. T.W. Bankes: Helena, AR, n.d. She has twin funnels amidships and distinctive boxed over paddles. Near the bow on her roof is a navy boat howitzer with scattered crew gazing at the photographer, presumably on shore. CDV of the tinclad stern wheeler USS Prairie Bird based on an identical photograph published online. Uncredited: n.d. The gunboat (No. 11) was taken up from the civilian trade, converted at Cairo and commissioned in January 1863. She spent the entire war with the Mississippi Squadron mostly engaged in patrolling and convey escort duties. In April 1864 she saw action at Yazoo City in support of army operations during the Red River Campaign. Later in the summer of 1864 she seized a steamer "for violation of revenue laws" and rescued several hundred 10th Missouri cavalrymen from the steamer B.M. Runyon that ran on to a snag and sank near Griffith's Landing, below Greenville, Mississippi. Prairie Bird was decommissioned at Mound City in July 1865 and sold out of service. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Lots 133-162 Cowan's is pleased to offer the first contingent of an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors and Mississippi Marine Brigade images, and, significantly, many views of unique Brown Water Navy sidewheel and sternwheel warships - no two vessels looking exactly the same. Subjectively, the most appealing aspect of the Cohen Collection are the photographs of these gunboats, transports, and impressed vessels quickly converted at St. Louis, Cairo, and Cincinnati for duty on the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The gamut of improvised warships range from the earliest types of steam powered vessels first taken up by the Army to create a small timberclad flotilla, to the several purpose-built War Department Ellet rams, and later, the more numerous classes of tinclads, some converted but all built for and crewed by the Navy. A few captured Confederate vessels impressed into Union service are also present. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Lady Gay with average clarity, some toning and clipped corners. Mounted over card stock with oval cutout for portrait that bled through the albumen, G+. CDV of unidentified vessel with above average clarity, uniform toning
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