Album Tintypes Cdv (2 results)
The photographic album [including four Abraham Lincoln CDV's, a Ulysses Grant, an annotated CDV for Major Overton, and a Napoleon III CDV, together with other Civil War era CDV family images by several Pennsylvania photographers, and 4 tintypes].
[CIVIL WAR -- PHOTO ALBUM]. [OVERTON, Jr. Major/Lt. Col. Edward].
Published by Overton, E. & H.T. Anthony, Mayer & Pierson, Ohlwiler's Gallery, Johnson & Webber, Dolph Bros., L.D. Johnson, S.D. Wager, Johnson & Lufkin, J.S. Hovey, Judkins' Tintype & Ferrotype Gallery, ca. 1860-1870]., [Bradford & Erie County, PA:, 1860
- Hardcover
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerThick 12mo. [54 pp (unpaginated).], 52 pp. are thick cardstock, w/ die-cut windows, for inserting CDV's or tintypes. With 34 CDV photographs sized approx. 2.75 x 4 in., albumen mounted on studio board, most w/ photographer's imprint on verso, a couple w/ annotations in lower margin or on verso, a few w/ canceled 2¢ stamps; 4 tin…types, 1 CDV sized, 3 mounted w/in CDV mount frames, embossing, 1 w/ photographer's imprint on verso (a couple of the images have minor scuffing either to recto, or verso, some have trimming of the studio card stock to fit within the slots for the album), still nearly all retain strong contrast. Elaborate contemporary brown morocco binding, elaborate raised decorative borders front & back cover, inserted milk glass bosses, gilt decoration, gilt inner dentelles, decorative gilt borders at fore-edges, gilt stamping on spine, decorative brass clasps, white silk moire endpapers, a.e.g. (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), NF. This very nice Civil War era CDV photo album opens with images of Abraham Lincoln, with imprinted name and dates below; the "President and Cabinet" taken from an engraving; composite photograph of Abraham Lincoln's deathbed with kneeling Mary Todd Lincoln surrounded by cabinet officials and others; and an Abraham Lincoln & George Washington Apotheosis memorial CDV card. Also included in the first few are CDV images of Martha Washington and General Ulysses Grant with four star epaulet shoulder bars. The CDV photo by J.W. Hurn of Major Overton (1836-1903) shows him standing in uniform with beard & mustache next to a chair. As a Towanda, PA lawyer from a prominent British-American Pennsylvania family he enlisted as a Major in the Pennsylvania 50th Infantry, rose to Lieut. Colonel, served in the 45th & 46th US Congress as a Republican, and later as president of the Citizens' National Bank. Another albumen CDV shows a seated Union Army private (uniform without bars or insignia), holding rifle & bayonet. A crisp tintype shows a young Union Army officer in dress uniform with embroidered insignia on shako hat, embroidered sleeves, fringed epaulets for an officer, white dress uniform trousers. One CDV included appears to be that of an unidentified Confederate Corporal, with double bar sleeve stripes, small badge on kepi, and front row of buttons, without photographer's imprint on verso. Another CDV shows Napoleon III standing with uniform, hand on saber, and bearing the Mayer & Pierson, Maison Alph. Giroux stamps on verso. The bulk of the remaining CDV portrait photographs & tintypes in the album comprise mostly what appear to be extended Overton family relations from Erie County, PA, New York, and Illinois. There are images of children, a mother 7 child, women in Civil War era dress, young men in suit, a very nice image of two mustachioed men seated by J.S. Hovey of Rome, NY with canceled 2¢ stamp on verso dated Oct. 20, 1864, and others. Most bear Pennsylvania photographer's imprints including Ohlwiler's Gallery in Erie, PA, Rosenzweig's Block; Johnson & Webber Photographers, Beatty's Block, Erie, PA; Johnson & Lufkin, Artists, Beatty's Block, Erie, PA, S.D. Wager, Photographer, and L.D. Johnson in Edenboro.
More images- Hardcover
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPhotograph. Thick sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Full brown decoratively embossed leather with a metal clasp. Boards bordered in metal. Wear to binding. Some damage to a couple of the tintypes. Three subjects are identified- Columbus Rider, Sherman Rider, and Clay Jones.
