Discovery
Description:
Group of Cabinet Cards, Depicting Presidents, Political Figures, Writers, LiteraryFigures, and Actors, American presidents and related cards including three of Garfield, one of Garfield's assassin, two of Grover Cleveland and one of his wife, Frances Folsom Cleveland, and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison; writers and literary figures including Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Robert Browning, Frederick Hedge, Henry Clarke Warren, Max Muller, and George William Curtis; actors including two of Edwin Booth, noted Shakespearean actor and brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, Will Seymour, John, McCullough, Sarah Bernhardt, Lilly Langtree, Alice Atherton, child actress Florence Washburn, Kate Forsyth, Julia Malowe, and Olive Logan; and ten cartes-de-visite depicting members of the artistic Bierstadt family, approx. forty-six total.
Estimate $200-250
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