Beschreibung:

Lot of 16, including: Two albumen CDVs of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), including a copy vignette by Case & Getchell, Boston, and a portrait from an engraving, published by D. Appleton & Co. Wendell Phillips (1814-1884), standing pose of the abolitionist orator and American Indian advocate. CDV published by Case & Getchell, Boston. Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams great-grandsons of John Quincy Adams, and Lincoln's foreign minister in London during the Civil War. Carte by Warren, Boston. Albumen CDV of a sketch of John Wesley Joseph Cole and James Hamilton in Edinburgh in 179, copyright to Robert G. Gardner, 1876. Albumen cabinet card of John Bright (1811-1889), the British Quaker statesman and orator; uncredited. Napoleon III (1809-1873), seated CDV pose, uncredited. Albumen cabinet card of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte (1822-1891), published by V. Daireaux, Paris. William I of Wurtetmberg (1781-1864), seated CDV pose by Case & Getchell, Boston. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), uncredited cabinet card of the poet, writer, and physician. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), copy CDV of the poet and professor by Case & Getchell, Boston. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), American poet and journalist, vignette CDV from a painted portrait, published by Currier & Jones, Amesbury & Salisbury, Massachusetts. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), famous writer and orator known as "The Great Agnostic," silver gelatin cabinet card by McMichael. Fanny Fern (1811-1872), popular columnist and author, uncredited vignette CDV. Brady's Gallery CDV of an unidentified sitter (he looks distinguished and familiar, but we are unable to come up with a name). Unidentified vignette CDV of an unidentified sitter, by Fassett's Gallery, Chicago.