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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.) BRADY, MATHEW, ET AL.
Group of 33 11 x
14 prints from photographs of scenes from the Civil War.
Gelatin silver prints on
heavy stock, some with notations on the reverse, presumably in William Gladstone’s hand.
SHOULD BE SEEN
. (WGC) 1862-1865 [printed out circa 1940’s or 1950’s]
[1,500/2,500]
A group of rare images from the Civil War, some possibly from Mathew Brady’s studio. This
group contains some famous images and some unusual ones as well, including several portraits
of African American soldiers.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—PHOTOGRAPHY.) LAWRENCE, C.S.
Pair
of carte-de-visite photographs of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence one of
the so-called “Redeemed slave children.”
Carte-de-visite with long captions beneath
the photographs.
Boston and Hartford, circa 1863
[700/1,000]
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence was one of a number of light-skinned children,
“redeemed” from the South by reformers who distributed carte-de-visites like this one at
Sanitary Fairs etc, to raise money for the Freedmen’s Bureau and other groups aiding the newly
freed. No one knows what Fannie’s real name might have been; but Catherine Lawrence had
her baptized in Brooklyn at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher.
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