Large Format Camera from Mathew Brady’s Studio. New York, c. 1850s

A major relic of photographic history, this camera was owned by Mathew Brady during his years as the leading figure in American photography. Brady was the preeminent American portrait photographer of his day. He gained his greatest fame with his studio’s documentation of the events and figures of the Civil War. This camera’s association with Brady and his studio, which produced hundreds of iconic portraits and thousands of Civil War photographs, makes it an important historical artifact.

$250,000

Mammoth Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, November 8, 1863

A classic mammoth portrait of Abraham Lincoln, showing the President just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address.

$95,000

An extraordinary collection of 26 photographic portraits of leading photographers. Various processes, 1850s-1890s

This superb collection of photographs of photographers documents the spread of photography from its inventor Daguerre through the art’s earliest practitioners in the United States and ultimately to the great photographers of the Civil War and the American West.

$75,000

Portrait of Charles Darwin, signed by Darwin and by Cameron. Cameron, [1868]

THE ICONIC PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DARWIN, boldly signed by Charles Darwin and by Julia Margaret Cameron.

$52,000

Ulysses S. Grant. Washington, 1865

Albumen print (6 1⁄2 x 4 1⁄4 in.), cabinet card mount. Some minor wear to bottom edge. Fine condition. .

$52,000

Daguerreotype Portrait of Baltus Stone. [Philadelphia], 1846

This remarkable portrait of Revolutionary War veteran Baltus Stone is one of the very few daguerreotypes of a person who had lived in colonial America.

$50,000

Collection of Photographs of Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet: a “Team of Rivals”. New York and Washington: Brady Studio, c. 1860

This is a splendid collection of Brady Imperial portraits of Lincoln’s most important cabinet members, the famed “Team of Rivals.”

Four photographs as a collection: $45,000

Magnificent Beecher Family Photograph Collection. Various places, 1850s-1880s

The collection: $42,000

Original Brady Photograph Maquette “President and Cabinet.”. Washington: Brady, 1864

$42,000

Armstrong and Aldrin raising the U.S. flag on the Moon’s surface. NASA, [1969]

Signed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two men on the Moon. This image was taken by the Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC, pronounced “dak”). The DAC made films through the Lunar Module Pilot’s window during the approach and landing of the LM and took stop motion photographs during the EVA at the rate of one frame per second.

$32,000