VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MATTHEW BRADY, MORA (New York), WARREN, and W. & D. DOWNEY

Portraits of American statesmen; authors, actors, royalty and others, circa 1860s and later

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MATTHEW BRADY, MORA (New York), WARREN, and W. & D. DOWNEY
Portraits of American statesmen; authors, actors, royalty and others, circa 1860s and later
Seventy-five cabinet cards including thirty-five carbon prints, the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts, all but a few identified in pencil or on typescript caption label and the majority with ink stamp Collection of Dr. N.T. Gidal on verso. (75)

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Sitters include Wendell Phillips, General Sherman (illus.), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vice President Wheeler, President Hayes; copy prints of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln; Dom Pedro, Professor Huxley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.W. Longfellow, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Minnie Palmer (3), Princess Louise and Queen Victoria among others.

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