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Carte de Visite of British Lord Bulwer Lytton. No photographer credits.
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$20
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CDV of Presbyterian Minister and Speaker Robert Breckenridge. Uncle of the
Confederate General and important in Kentucky politics. Anthony/Brady bm
and white spots on the image look to be emulsion separation n the original
glass plate negative. Rare subject for the War period.
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$75
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CDV of Civil War Correspondent for London Newspapers, William H Russell on
an Anthony/Brady cdv. Traveled throughout the US during the early years of
the Civil War to report the conflict to Europe. Scarce.
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$75
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"John Wien Forney (1817-09-13–1881-12-09) was an American journalist and
politician. He was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania and at the age of 16 entered the
printing office of the Lancaster Journal. Four years later he purchased the Lancaster
Intelligencer, and in 1840 he became proprietor of the Journal and combined the two
papers under the name of the Intelligencer and Journal. In 1845 President James K. Polk
appointed him deputy surveyor of the port of Philadelphia, where he purchased a half
interest in the Pennsylvanian, a Democratic paper of great influence, which under his
editorial control attained a national importance. From 1851 to 1855 he was Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, and he edited the Union, the organ of the Northern
Democrats. He conducted James Buchanan's successful campaign for the presidency,
and Buchanan would have given him a cabinet office if the appointment had been more
popular in the South. Buchanan's influence was not strong enough to win Forney a seat in
the United States Senate, which went instead to Simon Cameron. In August 1857, Forney
established the Philadelphia Press. At first a Douglas Democrat, he became, in the latter
days of the Buchanan administration, a Republican and contributed to the organization
of that party and its early successes. From 1859 to 1861, he was a second time clerk of
the House, and he published in Washington, D.C. the Sunday Morning Chronicle, which in
1862 was changed to a daily, and was throughout the Civil War looked upon as the organ
of the Lincoln administration. After serving as Secretary of the United States Senate
from 1861 to 1868, he disposed of his interest in the Chronicle and returned to
Philadelphia where in 1871 he was made collector of the port by Presidemt Ulysses S.
Grant. He was an earnest promoter of the Centennial Exposition and visited Europe in its
interest in 1875." Anthony Brady backmark
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$50
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Scarce pose of Sojourner Truth, the escaped slave and Abolitionist. Published
with her own backmark and dated 1864 in NY.
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$1450
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Anthony/Brady CDV of noted Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher.
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$60
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CDV of the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria. Anthony/Brady mount.
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$75
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