MATTHEW BRADY; BARR & YOUNG; and J. CARBUTT

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MATTHEW BRADY; BARR & YOUNG; and J. CARBUTT

Lincoln and His Cabinet

An album containing 20 cartes-de-visites; and 6 apart from the group.
1860s. The majority on Brady/E. Anthony mounts and identified on the reverse of the mounts in pencil by a previous owner. In slip mount pages with oval openings, presented back to back. 4to; brown morocco with gilt stamped spine and gold painted clasps. (26)

Literature

Lincoln, p. 138.

Lot Essay

The sitters are: Lincoln, from the second Brady sitting; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President; Wm. H. Seward, Secy. of State; Edwin M. Stanton, Secy. of War (from a lithograph by Elias Dexter); Salmon P. Chase, Secy. of Treasury; Edwin Bates, Attorney General; Gideon Welles, Secy. of Navy; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General; Caleb B. Smith, Secy. of Interior; Stephen A. Douglas; Edwin Everett; Horace Greeley; Gov. R. J. Oglesby; Gen. Joseph Hooker; Gen. Geo. B. McClellan; Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside; Gen. Wm. Starke Rosecrans; Gen. U.S. Grant; Major-Gen. John A. Logan; and Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman.
This album was assembled in the 1920s by Edward T. Van Norman, a rare book dealer in Peoria, Illinois.