- Two cartes de visite of Civil War Admiral
John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (1809-1870), developer of the "Dahlgren gun" naval cannon and other ordnance and, at sea, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron...
[more like this] - Camp Life in Fredericksburg-1863 Albumen
Photograph by Gardner 4.25 x 3.25 in. outdoor albumen on larger mount showing eight members of General Hooker??Ts staff in animated mock combat beneath the inked caption presumably...
[more like this] - Three Admiral Dahlgren books: Madeleine
V. Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren , Boston, 1882, James R. Osgood and Co., 9-1/4 x 6-1/2 in., lacking front free endpaper, edges rubbed, minor paint residue ; Rear Admiral...
[more like this] - 19th century alphabet sampler, eight
lines, bottom line "Martha M. Dahlgren November 8", American, possibly Pennsylvania, silk on linen, early to mid 19th century, 8-1/4 x 8-1/2 in.; painted gilt wood frame....
[more like this] - Four Abel Warshawsky oils, ephemera
(California, 1882-1962): butterfly signed and inscribed "A.G. Warshawsky/To Luisa A1-love", oil on tissue, 3-1/2 x 4 in., top right corner missing ; butterfly signed...
[more like this] - Six Abel Warshawsky watercolors (Abel
George Warshawsky, California, 1883-1962): cherubs with mouse and pot, a fishing pole and fish, hatched chick and broken egg carriage, bear cub and music, grasshopper, lobster...
[more like this] - Double sheet of Colonial currency, eight
notes, uncut, Pennsylvania issue of April 25, 1776, denominations from "one shilling" to "two shillings and six pence", each fully signed and numbered...
[more like this] - Three presidential appointments, all
military, partially printed on parchment: one signed "Theodore Roosevelt" as President, and Elihu Root as Secretary of War, December 5, 1903, minor edge chips ;...
[more like this] - Sons of the Revolution gold medal, oval
medallion with American revolutionary soldier on obverse, "Sons of the Revolution" around bust of Washington on verso, gilt silver or bronze, mounted in a heavy...
[more like this] - Douglas MacArthur signed letter, 14
typed lines on "General Headquarters, U.S. Armed Forces, Pacific" stationery, November 2, 1945, expressing sympathy to the wife of Lt. Col. Cornelius Z. Byrd upon...
[more like this] - Dahlgren family trunk, heavy leather
construction throughout with brass mounts, pull out wooden interior tray with fabric lining, interior of lid with loops (may have held accessories), marked on front "Peel...
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