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Non-Sport - 1830s-Early 1900s Photography - CDVs, Etc.
10 Lots
 Lot 13. Gen. George Armstrong Custer Vintage, Original Silver Print. This ex 3.75” x 5.25” unmounted print of the cavalryman and general shows moderate contrast and sharp focus. Although he graduated last in his class at the U.S. Military Academy, he served with distinction in the Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Vintage, original photos of Custer are very scarce.
Winning Bid $396.
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 Lot 14. Outstanding William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Cabinet Photo by Brooklyn’s Stacy Studio. This 4.25” x 6.5” card may very well have been distributed by Cody’s Wild West Show. His facsimile signature is on the back. The photo shows the legendary figure in a fringed jacket and western outfit, wearing his trademark hat and holding a rifle. The photo is sharp and strong, with light scuff marks on his right leg; technically vg+ to ex, it looks better and is on a vg+ mount.
Winning Bid $433.
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 Lot 15. Rare Gen. Tom Thumb Wedding Album Locket. Just under a height of three feet, “Thumb” was a major star of P. T. Barnum’s circus in the mid-1800s. His real name was Sherwood Edward Stratton, born in 1838 in Connecticut. Normal except for his size, Stratton was only four, and about two feet tall, when he began touring with the circus. Barnum presented him as an 11-year-old. The child sang, danced and impersonated widely recognized individuals. He was wildly popular in England, where he appeared twice before Queen Victoria. In 1863, Stratton married another little person, Lavinia Warren. A few days after the wedding, President Lincoln received the couple at the White House. The locket, which measures ½” x 7/8”, contains 10 photos, including the couple’s wedding photo. Besides Tom and Lavinia, the photos show George Washington Morrison Nutt, the best man; Minnie Warren, Lavinia’s sister and maid of honor; and the Episcopal priest who married them. Two photos show Lavinia holding a baby. The couple never had any children, but Barnum claimed a child obtained from orphanage to be their own. He thought the baby should be a little person too. Consequently, once the baby grew too large, he would acquire another one. Sherwood died of a stroke in 1883; more than 10,000 people attended his funeral. Lavinia passed away in 1919. The brass locket is ex-m, and so are the photos, which show strong contrast.
Winning Bid $200.
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 Lot 269. Mathew Brady CDV of Future President James A. Garfield. During the Civil War, Garfield achieved the rank of major general in the Union Army. While serving, he was elected to Congress from Ohio. He resigned his commission and remained in Congress until 1881, when he was inaugurated as the President of the U.S. Brady’s photo captures a young Garfield in civilian clothes. The back of the mount has paper loss on a blank area and a stain to the left of the Brady logo. The photo contrast and the front overall are excellent.
Winning Bid $125.
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 Lot 271. 4 Original 1830s-60s Salt Prints – Edward Bates, P. T. G Beauregard and Horace Greeley. The salt print process was a significant technology for making photographic prints from 1839 until the early 1860s. Essentially, the process involves coating sheets of paper with silver salts. The subjects of these uncommon vintage photos are Edward Bates, Abraham Lincoln’s U.S. Attorney General; P. G. T. Beauregard, a U.S. Military Academy graduate and a Confederate general in the Civil War; Horace Greeley, an influential newspaper editor and slavery opponent; and an unidentified man believed to be a member of Congress. Ex-m.
Winning Bid $75.
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 Lot 272. Mathew Brady CDV of Brig. Gen. David Birney. During the course of the war, Birney was promoted to major general. He grew up in an abolitionist family. A lawyer and businessman when the Civil War began, he joined the Union Army soon after Fort Sumter and, as a lieutenant colonel, led the 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Primarily at his own expense, Birney raised the unit. He commanded units at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor. During the siege of Petersburg, he became ill, possibly with malaria. Ordered home to Philadelphia, he died there in October 1864. Birney’s photo shows excellent contrast. It has a small crease in the upper left corner, and the mount has a crease the shows on the back.
Winning Bid $83.
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 Lot 273. Ulysses S. Grant Civil War CDV. Vintage photo of the Union general and future U.S. President with his name added below. The photo has a minor stain to Grant’s left, and the mount has a stain in the lower left corner and tape marks at the top and bottom on the back.
Winning Bid $65.
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 Lot 274. Maj. Gen. Gouverneur Warren CDV by Mathew Brady. The “Hero of Little Round Top” at Gettysburg, Warren graduated second in a class of 44 at the U.S. Military Academy. At Five Forks, the V Corps commanded by Warren helped to win the battle, but Gen. Sheridan believed he had not acted aggressively enough and relieved him of his command. In ensuing years, Warren’s repeated requests for a court of inquiry to investigate his dismissal by Sheridan were repeatedly ignored or blocked – until President U. S. Grant was out of office. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered a court of inquiry, which eventually concluded that Sheridan’s action was unjustified. The results of the inquiry were not published, however, until Warren died in 1882. The Brady photo displays a strong image. The photo partially covers the “Brady” and “Washington” designation at the bottom. The back shows light impressions but otherwise is very clean with the Brady logo displaying nicely.
Winning Bid $130.
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 Lot 275. Vintage Photos of 4 Important 19th Century Figures: Grant, Webster, Sheridan, Sherman. All four leaders have some connection to the Civil War. Their mid-19th sepia photos, which are not mounted, measure approximately 4” x 5.75”. Webster served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Massachusetts and as Secretary of State. He worked to achieve various compromises in the hope of averting the Civil War. Ex photo. U.S. Grant, of course, was the Union’s most successful Civil War general and served as U.S. President from 1869-77. Ex-m+ photo. William Tecumseh Sherman was an outstanding military strategist who served under Grant in the Civil War and implemented “total war” against the Confederate States. The photo has a repaired hole away from Sherman’s image; it could be matted out. Philip Sheridan also served with Grant in the West, was appointed General of the Army under President Cleveland and had a key role in the development of Yellowstone National Park. Vg-ex photo.
Winning Bid $198.
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