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Lot 576: Harper's Weekly Civil War Years – 6 bound Volumes, 1861-1866

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Six bound folio volumes of Harper's Weekly, Journal of Civilization spanning the years of the Civil War and its aftermath; with articles, reports and editorials on the war accompanied by numerous engravings and drawings by notable illustrators such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast and Granville Perkins. Included are: Vol. V, January 5 – December 28, […]

Lot 571: Group of TN 18th and 19th C. Legal Documents inc. Randal McGavock

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Thirteen (13) Middle Tennessee court documents. Includes one (1) 1797 Wilson County document regarding appointment of Daniel Mosley of Buckingham County Virginia as guardian for "Peter Hale the Orphan". One of the earliest child welfare cases in the newly formed state of Tennessee. Also includes three (3) documents related to an 1807 summons and complaint […]

Lot 569: 5 NC/TN Land Grant Documents incl. James Glasgow Signed & Overton Related

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Five (5) early North Carolina land related documents referring to land in Nashville Tennessee, before it became a separate state. 1st item: North Carolina Revolutionary War land grant signed by the state's first Secretary of State James Glasgow (1735-1819, convicted of land fraud 1797), granting Daniel Tawney or Fawney 320 acres, location and date unspecified, […]

Lot 570: Collection of TN Governors' Signatures, circa 1874-1973

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Collection of correspondence signed by Tennessee governors, dating 1874-1973. The autographs of most governors of the period are represented, including John C. Brown, James D. Porter, Albert Marks, Alvin Hawkins, Robert Love Taylor, John Buchanan, Peter Turney, Benton McMillan, James B. Frazier, John Cox, Malcolm Patterson, Tom C. Rye, Ben W. Hooper, A.H. Roberts, Henry […]

Lot 566: 4 19th C.TN Political Portraits, incl. Andrew Jackson, Polk

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1st item: Rare Peter Maverick stipple engraved, circular bust-length portrait of a man in military dress, identified in upper margin as Andrew Jackson. With Cumberland Collectors, Lebanon, TN label affixed to verso attributing the print to Peter Maverick, c. 1824, and with explanatory text reading "The portrait is that of Marquis de Lafayette who toured […]

Lot 561: 26 CDVs of 19th C Personalities: Johnson, Webster, Stowe & E. TN

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Grouping of CDVs of National and East Tennessee interest. Subjects include U.S. President from Tennessee Andrew Johnson; Henry Ward Beecher together with sister Harriet Beecher Stowe; Daniel Webster; James Russell Lowell from the 1855 drawing from S.W. Rowse; Horace Greeley; John A. Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts 1861-1865; Johann Strauss; John Greenleaf Whittier; Patrick Sarsfield […]

Lot 559: 11 Photos of Civil War interest incl. Gen. Sam Carter Signed and TN Subjects

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Eleven (11) photographs, including CDVs of Civil War military subjects, notably General Samuel P. "Powhatan" Carter of Tennessee. 1st Item: CDV of unknown Union Captain, likely Captain Darius Sullivan of Co. K, 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Item: CDV of Julia Marie (Buel) Trowbridge (1841-1909), wife of Brigadier General Luther Stephen Trowbridge (10-11th items below); […]

Lot 556: Mary Todd Lincoln Dress Fragment and Hair Sample in Shadowbox

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Shadowboxed collection containing a dress fragment and hair samples related to President Abraham Lincoln's wife, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and convicted Lincoln assassin conspirator Mary Surratt (the first woman executed by the United States government). Includes hair snippet from Mary Todd Lincoln along with a black embroidered silk fragment from the dress Mrs. Lincoln […]