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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
LINCOLN,
ABRAHAM.
ROSEN-
THAL, MAX.
Abraham Lincoln—
With Malice Toward None, With
Charity for All.
Large portrait etching,
20 x 28 inches, with a large portrait of
Lincoln, surrounded by 36 small vignettes
identifying the states of the Union; some
slight discoloration to the bottom blank
margin. A remarque of Lincoln’s death
mask in the margin, to the right is the
artist’s pencil signature.
Philadelphia, 1908
[800/1,200]
Max Rosenthal (1833-1918), born in
Russian Poland, studied lithography in Paris at
13, and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1849
or 1850. Rosenthal worked with his brothers
Louis, Morris and Simon, and also taught
mezzotint engraving and oil painting in his
later years.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LOGUEN, JERMAIN.
Autograph Letter
Signed to his daughter Amelia. St Louis, March 6, 1869.
4to leaf, folded to form
four pages, written on all sides; creases where folded; neat split at the vertical fold.
Np,
[1,000/1,500]
A RARE LETTER FROM JERMAIN LOGUEN
(1813-1872),
ESCAPED SLAVE
,
MINISTER AND
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONDUCTOR
to his daughter Amelia. Amelia was at this time
engaged to Frederick Douglass’ son Lewis who she would marry six months later. Loguen,
writing from St. Louis has some harsh words for the city’s colored population, saying that there
are 20,000 colored people there, “but oh what a place for colored people - they are behind the
times,” - and in regard to the people of Chicago: “I do not know what to say about the people
in Chicago—they are a strange set of people, one thing I know they are a fast people and a bad
people too I think. Some fine ones I think among them, but they are scarce.”
