10-30-201610-30-2016
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2950BBoston
October 30, 2016 11:00 AMCalender
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Photograph Album, 1860s: Tintypes; Carte-de-Visites; Abraham Lincoln.

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$277$225
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2950BLocation: BostonDate / Time: October 30, 2016 11:00AM

Description:

Photograph Album, 1860s: Tintypes; Carte-de-Visites; Abraham Lincoln. Small format leather album with twenty-five leaves, containing fifty images, a mix of carte-de-visite, tintypes, and others; including: a carte-de-visite of Tom Thumb with his wife and baby; another of Ulysses S. Grant; a tintype of a man with a guitar; an embossed card by A.E. Alden of Providence, featuring small oval portraits of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; and others, photography studios in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts area; the album intact, in green morocco, a.e.g., clasps and catches present and functioning, 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Mary Todd Lincoln