9 1/2” x 7 1/2” image of a 19th century salvage operation. At center of image, a diver is being suited up. Mounted on a 13 1/4” x 10 5 /8” sheet. Another 9 1/2” x 7 1/2 image of a salvage crane is mounted to the other side of the cardboard. Both images are extremely clean and crisp. Very Fine.

An interesting portrait of 5 men dressed in heavy winter clothing with a background of snow covered mountains. Unusual. Back stamp J. Page Wood, Photographic Artist, 178 Water Street, St. Johns, New Foundland. Fine.

12 3/8” x 9 1/4” long distance photograph of bicycle racers lining up at the starting line c. 1890s. Text box at bottom center of image reads: Saturday. Third heat, One mile open Amateur” Image mounted to a 14 3/4” x 11 3/4” piece of cardboard. Backstamp reads: Credit Culver Service 205 East 42 Loaned for one use only.” Slight paper loss at lower left edge of cardboard. One small stain on image. Overall Very Fine. During the late 1890’s, the oval wooden bicycle racing track at Willow Grove Park hosted a number of national races.

12 3/8” x 9 1/4” close up photograph of bicycle racers lining up at the starting line c. 1890s. Text box at bottom center of image reads: Friday. Final heat, One mile National Championship Amateur.” Image mounted to a 14 3/4” x 11 3/4” piece of cardboard. Backstamp reads: Credit Culver Service 205 East 42 Loaned for one use only.” Chipping at edge of cardboard. Tear at left and right edge of cardboard, not affecting image. Overall Very Fine. During the late 1890’s, the oval wooden bicycle racing track at Willow Grove Park hosted a number of national races.

12 3/8” x 9 1/4” short distance photograph of bicycle racers lining up at the starting line c. 1890s. Text box at bottom center of image reads: Friday. Final heat, One third mile open Amateur.” Image mounted to a 14 3/4” x 11 3/4” piece of cardboard. Backstamp reads: Credit Culver Service 205 East 42 Loaned for one use only.” Tears to cardboard. One small tear on photograph, but image remains intact. Overall Fine. During the late 1890’s, the oval wooden bicycle racing track at Willow Grove Park hosted a number of national races.

12 3/8” x 9 1/4” long distance photograph of bicycle racers lining up at the starting line c. 1890s. Text box at bottom center of image reads: Friday. Final heat, One mile 2:05 class Professional.” Image mounted to a 14 3/4” x 11 3/4” piece of cardboard. Backstamp reads: Credit Culver Service 205 East 42 Loaned for one use only.” Chipping at edge of cardboard. Overall Very Fine. During the late 1890’s, the oval wooden bicycle racing track at Willow Grove Park hosted a number of national races.

ULYSSES GRANT (1822-1885) Union General during the Civil War and President of the United States. Cabinet photograph of Grant and his family on the front porch of a house. 6 1/2” x 4 1/4” No backstamp. Text below image reads: “Gen. U.S. Grant and his family. Fine.

Carte-de-visite of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence wearing a black dress and holding a dress hat seated before a black curtain and a seashore backdrop. 2 1/8” x 4 1/4”. Backstamp of “J.W. Black 173 Washington St. Boston.” Text below CDV reads : “Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence. A redeemed SLAVE CHILD, 5 years of age, redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; Baptized in Brooklyn at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863.”

[PHOTOGRAPHY] CDV of a seated samurai. [circa 1875] 2 3/8” x 4”. Some toning and wear. Overall Fine.

Real Photo Postcard. “The Indian on the New Nickel. Chief Iron Tail and The Bison”. Great photo of the Chief standing next to a bison. Superb Indian postcard. Postally used. Fine

7 1/2” x 9 1/2” photograph of an Edison photograph in a Graphoscope on a table with a small decanter and a book. Ornate gilt border. Matted to an 11” x 14” sheet. Photographed by. J. Holyland, 231 W. Batlo St., Balto, Md. Some very slight toning on larger sheet. Overall Very Fine.

Archive of 136 photographs of Rickenbacker and his wife, Adelaide Frost, and friends. Images include photographs taken during the couple’s ocean crossing aboard the S.S. Majestic; photographs of WWI trenches, cemeteries, battlefields and even the site of Rickenbacker’s hanger at Toul. Photographs also document visits to the Etampes Air Races, Paris, Venice, Rome, Pompei, and travel throughout Italy & France. Sixty three of the photographs of mounted to loose leafs. The majority of photograph are indentified on back or, in the case of mounted images, on loose leaf. A great archive of Rickenbacker photographs that also captures Europe in the years between WWI and WWI. Overall Very Fine.

8 7/8” x 6 7/8” image of Union soldiers at Fort Lincoln. Mounted to a larger backing board that reads Incidents of the War” and credits ALEXANDER GARDNER (1821-1882) American photographer best know for his images of the Civil War and for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Text on back of photograph reads: Fort Lincoln in Civil War Lloyd Ostendorf Collection June 28, 1959 Washington, D.C.” Extremely Fine.

HENRY WAGER HALLECK (1815-1872) U.S. Army officer, scholar and lawyer. CDV of HALLECK. 2 3/8” x 4”. Backstamp reads: “ Cartes de Visite D. Appleton & Co. 443 & 445 Bway New York A.A. Turner Photographer.” Text below image of Halleck reads: “ GEN HALLECK Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by D. Appleton & Co. in the Clerk’s Office of the Unite States for the Southern District of New York.” Fine.

GEORGE PEABODY (1795-1869) Entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute. Cabinet photograph of a seated George Peabody. Notation below image identifies Peabody. Backstamp reads: “Gurney,” seal and motto on back reads: “I have chained the sun to serve me.” Some edge wear. An unusual cabinet of Peabody. Overall Fine.

[LINCOLN]. CDV. Ostendorf variant O-84. Variant head. Lincoln’s head is placed upon the body of Martin Van Buren. Backstamp of C. H. Hall, Artist, Capital Gallery, Springfield, Illinois.

[LINCOLN]. CDV. No backstamp. Lincoln and Tad. No backstamp. Mounted to an embossed card bearing an eagle, wreath and flags. Fine.

[LINCOLN]. CDV. No backstamp. Ostendorf variant Ostendorf-92. No backstamp. Variant of an original taken by Anthony Berger. Minor bend in lower left. Fine.

[LINCOLN]. CDV. No backstamp. Ostendorf-91.

[LINCOLN]. CDV. Backstamp of D. Appleton & Co., New York. Ostendorf-91. Printed oval border. Excellent.

[LINCOLN DEATHBEAD]. CDV. Artist’s rendition of the scene at Lincoln’s deathbed. No backstamp. Excellent.

[LINCOLN FAMILY]. CDV. As Ostendorf states Artist’s conception of the Lincoln family, originally printed as a lithograph. Robert T. stands behind his father, Tad is at the President’s side, and Mrs. Lincoln appears on the right.” No backstamp.

MAXIMILIAN I (1832-1867) Emperor of Mexico. CDV of Maximilian standing beside a chair. No backstamp. Text below image reads, “ Maximilian, Baily, Paris.” Bumping to corners. One spot of toning at lower right corner, not affecting image. Overall Very Fine.

JAMES WOOD Member of the New York state senate 30th District, 1870-1873. Signed Photograph of Wood. 8” x 10 3/4”. Geneseo, New York. Thirtieth Senatorial District image of Wood Signed, “James Wood Geneseo, NY. “ Very Fine.

PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN (1831-1888). General. Fine formal, gilt-edged photograph of Sheridan in full military dress. Taken by “C. Parker, 477 Penn. Ave, Washington D.C.” Some minor edge wear. Else Very Fine.

[GROVER CLEVELAND]. Stereoview of a pair of photographs of Grover and Frances Cleveland adorned with flowers. Littleton View Co. Publishers, Littleton, New Hampshire. Excellent condition.

A superb collection of ten real photo post cards most likely showing members of the Black Feet tribe at Fort Benton, with one card identifying the subjects as members of that tribe. The various views include tribal dances, meetings and Indian elders. A great collection from Leos’ studio with photo credit given to an “A.E.Forde” and two cards dated June 17, 1973. Included is another photo post card entitled: “Going to the Sun Camp, Horses ready for trail, Glazier National Park” published by Hileman with slight paper loss in lower left corner, and another post card sized photograph of a man peering into an abyss and identified and “Many Glacier” on verso. Two of the cards have slightly creased corners, else very good.

Tinted quarter-plate tintype of Sergeant Daniel Cooley, 8th Maine Volunteers., seated in his sergeant’s uniform 3 1/4” x 4 1/4” Image housed within a brown leather case with a interior metal frame and ornate purple fabric.

Accompanied by a Manuscript Document Signed by two officers in the 8th Maine Volunteers. One page, 7 7/8” x 8 1/2”. Augusta Maine. January 25, 1866. The letter reads

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“To all Whom it may concern We the undersigned Commissioned Officers Eight Regt. Maine Vols. Do hereby take pleasure in recommending Sergt. Daniel Cooley Co “F’ 8th Maine Vols. To all who may employ him in an capacity. He is an honest sober and steady young man, and has been connected with our Regiment since Augst 20, 1861 and during that ime has proven himself a worth and just young man and we take pleasure in thus recommending him Wm. M McArthur, Col Comdg. 8 Maine Vols. Edmund G. Murry 1st Lieutenant Co F 8th Maine Vol.”

Also Accompanied by a American flag patch bearing thirteen stars and thirteen stripes.2 3/4” x 2”.

Daniel Cooley, a resident of South Berwick, enlisted in the Union Army in September of 1861 as a private at the age of 23. He was mustered into “F” Company of the ME 8th Infantry and re-enlisted in February of 1864. Promoted to 1st Sergeant in 1865, Cooley was mustered out in January of 1866.

William Miltimore McArthur entered into the Maine Volunteers as a Captain and was wounded at Petersburg on 1864. He was Brevetted a Major General in March of 1865 and went on to serve in both the Maine Legislature and Senate following the war.

Edmund G. Murry enlisted as a Corporal in the Maine Volunteers in 1861 and rose to the rank of fist lieutenant before being mustered out in January of 1866.

A nice Civil War Lot. Fine Condition Overall.

ULYSSES GRANT (1822-1885) Union general during the American Civil war and President of the United States. CDV of Grant seated. 2 3/8” x 4”. No backstamp. Text below image reads: “ President U.S. Grant.” Some minor toning. Overall Very Fine.