Collection of 13 items consisting of unsigned cartes-de-visite, stereoviews, portraits, and several other formats. Cartes-de-visite are of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, Lincoln and Union commanders, a study of John Rogers’s sculpture of Lincoln, an image of Thomas Ball’s sculpture, and a caricature of Lincoln playing the banjo. Stereoviews are of the Lincoln ‘summer’ White House and Vinnie Ream’s statue of Lincoln. Remaining items include an unusual matte-finish, 11 x 12.75, composite photo of an artistically embellished Lincoln portrait, with a pencil notation to the reverse claiming a 1916 copyright; a certificate featuring an engraving of the National Lincoln Monument in Springfield, Illinois, 6 x 9, 1869, proving that the bearer “has contributed Fifty Cents to the erection of a Monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, our martyred President,” and bearing a facsimile signature of J. H. Beveridge at the conclusion; three printed messages or proclamations; an ALS signed “Warren N. Goddard,” mentioning “a photograph of Abraham Lincoln”; and an engraving of the Lincoln family gathered around a book, 12 x 15.5, published by John Damty of Philadelphia, from an engraving by A. B. Walter based on a painting by F. Schell. In overall very good condition, with heavy dampstaining to the lower half of the family engraving. RR Auction COA.
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