Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

70 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) The Martyr of Freedom, A. Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States. Albumen photograph, 7 1 / 4 x 5 inches, captioned in image, on original plain mount; minor wear, mount unevenly cropped. New York: Charles Magnus, 1865 [300/400] 70 71 For this memorial photographic print, Magnus reproduced a somewhat mysterious early presidential portrait of Lincoln dating from circa March-June 1861. The photographer may have been W.L. Germon; the most famous example was inscribed to Lucy Speed, mother of the president’s close friend Joshua Fry Speed. Ostendorf O-55, pages 88-89. 71 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Liberty Crowning her Martyr. Carte-de-visite albumen photograph, 3 1 / 2 x 2 1 / 4 inches, captioned in image, on plain mount; min- imal wear; inscribed on verso “No. 433, filed June 29th 1865, Frank Noel, Propri- etor,” with later ink inscription added. Philadelphia: Frank Noel, 1865 [300/400] A photograph of a painting depicting Lincoln kneeling before a bust of Washington, broken shackles and the Emancipation Proclamation at his feet, while Liberty places a garland upon his head.This appears to be the original copy held by the copyright applicant.