FIVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUBJECT MATTERFIVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUBJECT MATTER POST CARDSFIVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUBJECT MATTER POST CARDS Circa 1909. Comprising,an example depicting the Lincoln Monument, Lincoln Park, Chicago, the second, a woefull assination card, with a Lincoln portrait and a vignette of the President and First Lady at the theater with Booth approaching from behind, another of Lincoln and his Cabinet at the U.S. Capital signing the Emancipation Proclamation, another honoring Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, the last a Lincoln Centennial Souvenir, with a portrait of the President and a grieving Mrs. Lincoln, gilt highlights; all with notes on the reverse, three with postmarks or cancelled stamps. 3 by 5 in. (Cond: good) The second and the fifth reproduced, Stuart Schneider, Collecting Lincoln, Schiffer Publishing, 1997, pp. 276, 278.
(96) MILITARY AND POLITICAL CIVIL WAR(96) MILITARY AND POLITICAL CIVIL WAR ERA CDV'S, PLUS (28) UNRELATED GEM TINTYPES The CDVs' backmarks, when present, are generally for E. Anthony, yet sometimes they credit Brady's Portrait Gallery. Many of the mounts are unmarked, yet have penciled identification of the subject. These have been verified whenever possible.
The collection is as follows:
(10) Politicians: George Washington (2), Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln and His Cabinet, Stephen A. Douglas, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield as a Union general, Rhode Island Governor Willian Sprague in uniform.
One (1) Brady marked CDV of New York's martyred Col. Elmer Ellsworth.
(51) Identified Union Generals as follows: Anderson, Auger, Banks, Buell, Buford, Casey, Corcoran, Couch, Curtis (Samuel), Doubleday, Dwight, Foster, French, Gilmore (inscribed), Grierson, Halleck, Heintzelman, Hooker, Hunter, Kearney, Kelly, Lander, Lyon, McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Mitchell, Morell, Newton, Palmer, Pleasanton, Pope, Reno, Rosecrans, Schenck, Segwick, Sheridan, Sherman (Thomas), Sherman (William T.), Sigel, Slocum, Smith (William), Stahl, Stevenson (Thomas), Stone, Stoneman, Sykes, Thomas (Lorenzo), Tyler, Warren, Weber, Wool.
(7) Naval Portraits: Admiral David Farragut (2); Commodores Boggs, Davis, Foote, Rogers, Stringham,
(6) Lithographed Union Commanders: Col. Baker, Benjamin Butler, Admiral Dupont, General Franklin, Col. W. R. Lee, General McCall.
(5) Confederates: Jefferson Davis; Robert E, Lee (3); General John Hunt Morgan.
(18) mostly military CDVs, some sitters named.
Plus, a specialized collection gem tintypes showing unknown civilian sitters, late 1860s - 1870s, all ages and both genders, the portraits housed in an embossed leather album. There is some duplication of images.