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4 Original 1830s-60s Salt Prints – Edward Bates, P. T. G Beauregard and Horace Greeley.
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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