Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

SOUTH AFRICAN LEAFLET FOR A CIVILWAR DIORAMA 70 c   (CIVIL WAR.) The American War Bulletin / For the Children Visiting the AmericanWar Diorama. 2-page handbill on one sheet, 8 1 / 2 x 5 1 / 2 inches; toned and foxed with several small holes; pencil catalogue number on recto, inked owner’s stamp on verso. In a folding paper enclosure with bookplate of G.N. Ingleton. Vp, [1870?] [250/350] One side provides the program of a travelling Civil War diorama which was touring South Africa, including the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Bull Run, the battle between the Kearsarge and Alabama, the main battles from Gettysburg through Appomattox, and Lincoln’s assassination and funeral. It was printed in Port Elizabeth by Richards, Impey & Co. On verso is a poem titled “For the Children Visiting the American War Diorama,” credited to Harry Stanley. This side was printed in nearby Grahamstown by T.H. Grocott. This handbill apparently advertises the same exhibit as “Rainer’s American War Bulletin” which toured Australia in 1870. No other copies traced. 71 c   (CIVIL WAR.) Advertising broadside for “Prison-Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond.” Illustrated broadside, 13 1 / 4 x 7 inches; one horizontal fold, 1 / 4 -inch area of loss near upper right corner, laid down on heavy paper except for the bottom two inches. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 25 March 1862 [400/600] The author, Lieutenant William C. Harris, was captured early in the war at Ball’s Bluff and imprisoned at Ligon’s Tobacco Warehouse, an early precursor to the Confederate prisons at Andersonville and elsewhere. This broadside summarizes the contents of his narrative, assures that it was mostly “written within prison walls and brought to the North securely in the lining of an overcoat,” and offers two binding alternatives. The illustration shows “Our last day in the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse Prison,” in which the soon-to-be-freed prisoners tossed their old clothes to a group of slaves gathered beneath the windows. 72    (CIVIL WAR.) Bellow, Henry W., et al. To the Loyal Women of America. 3 printed pages, 10 x 8 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, part of inner margin cropped, folds, minor wear. [Washington?], 1 October 1861 [200/300] An appeal to support the United States Sanitary Commission in its efforts to care for Union troops. Concludes with an endorsement by President Lincoln:“The Sanitary Commission is doing a work of great humanity, and of direct practical value to the nation, in this time of its trial. . . .There is no agency through which voluntary offerings of patriotism can be more effectively made.” Sabin 76684. 70 71