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(BRODHEAD, JOHN ROMEYN.) John Mayall
Daguerreotype portrait of John Romeyn Brodhead. London: Mayall, 1848
A splendid half-plate daguerreotype of Herman Melville’s advisor and agent John Brodhead, scholar and diplomat.
John Romeyn Brodhead (1814-1873) was a historian and a member of the American diplomatic corps. Best remembered for his services as Herman Melville’s agent in London, Brodhead had known Melville and his family since their youth.
$15,000
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(GEORGE WASHINGTON & MOUNT VERNON.) Israel & Riddle, photographers
The Home of Washington, as it appeared May 14th 1859. Baltimore, H.E. Hoyt & Co., 1859
The earliest dated photograph of Mount Vernon, this is one of the very earliest known photographs of George Washington’s home.
$12,500
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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) BRADY STUDIO
Anthony Berger. Abraham Lincoln, seated portrait.. Washington: Mathew Brady Gallery, 9 February 1864
The classic Brady $5 bill photograph. This celebrated portrait, the basis for the five-dollar bill engraving used for most of the 20th century, is one of seven poses taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady’s Washington, D. C. studio on February 9, 1864. The most prolific photographer of Lincoln, Brady himself did not actually operate his cameras during the war years, instead training and employing men like Alexander Gardner and his successor Anthony Berger, who took this picture, to operate the camera.
$12,000
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(GRANT, U. S.) Gutekunst, Frederick
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia: Gutekunst, April or May 1865
This impressive full-length portrait of Grant in uniform was made at war’s end to capture the triumphal hero at the height of his powers. This portrait shows Grant emulating the pose of Napoleon in David’s famous Napoleon in his Study (1812), a pose favored in military portraits of the time.
$9,500
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(DOUBLEDAY, ABNER)
Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday. No place, 1860s
This is a rare large format portrait of the famed general Abner Doubleday. Doubleday played a prominent role in the Union Army from the war’s outset. He was was second in command at Fort Sumter when the war started. He later commanded a division at Antietam, Gettysburg and other major battles.
$9,500
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(WOMEN)
Album containing 80 tintype portraits of women and girls. American, 1860s-1880s
This fascinating album contains 80 tintype portraits of women and girls, young and old. Some are dressed plainly, while others are in fine dresses, and at least one is in mourning attire. The photographs head and shoulders, seated, and full-length standing portraits.
$9,500
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(WHITMAN, WALT.) Napoleon Sarony
Bust portrait of Whitman wearing a hat. New York, 1878
Boldly signed and dated 1879 by Whitman. Whitman observed of this delightful portrait, “It is one of my good-humored pictures. … This is strong enough to be right and gentle enough to be right, too: I like to be both: I wouldn’t like people to say ‘he is a giant’ and then forget I know how to love.”
$7,200
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BARBOZA, ANTHONY (PAT EVANS)
Black Beauty / Model Pat Evans. New York, 1970s, printed 2012
This is a splendid Anthony Barboza portrait of Pat Evans, the celebrated 1970s model, designer, and icon of Black beauty.
$5,200
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(HIP HOP.) Barboza, Anthony
Grandmaster Flash. 1984. New York, 1984
This portrait captures Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five at the height of their fame. The pioneering group broke through to mainstream success with the 1982 single “The Message,” which made the top 100 pop charts. “’The Message’ was [the first record] to prove that rap could become the inner city’s voice, as well as its choice” (Rolling Stone). In 2007 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first hip hop group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2012 Rolling Stone declared “The Message” (with the refrain “Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the edge, I’m tryin’ not to lose my head …”) the number one hip hop song of all time.
$4,500
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(WHITMAN, WALT.) Phillips & Taylor
Portrait of Walt Whitman holding a butterfly. Philadelphia, [early 1880s?]
A beloved Whitman photograph, framed with a large, bold signature of the poet.
$4,500