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 568: Abram Maury and Carey Harris Franklin TN Family Archive plus Mississippi Cotton Co.
Archive of approximately 150 items related to the Abram Maury and Carey Harris families of Middle Tennessee. Abram Poindexter Maury Sr. (1766-1825) was a Revolutionary War major from Virginia who settled in Middle Tennessee in 1797. In 1799 he donated the land for what would become Franklin, the seat of Williamson County and, as a […]
Lot 566: 4 19th C.TN Political Portraits, incl. Andrew Jackson, Polk
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
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
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 557: Abraham Lincoln Law Library Shadowbox with Autographs, Artifacts
Collage of artifacts related to future President Abraham Lincoln's Illinois law office and law partners, all framed in a shadowbox setting. Includes clipped autographs of John T. Stuart (Lincoln's first law partner, signature dated 1876); Stephen T. Logan (signed summons, dated 1834); and William H. Herndon (taken from one of his law books); a clipped […]
Lot 556: Mary Todd Lincoln Dress Fragment and Hair Sample in Shadowbox
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 […]
Lot 555: Two John Rogers Civil War Figural Groups: Union Refugees and Taking the Oath
1st Item: John Rogers (American, 1829 – 1904) painted plaster figural sculpture titled "Union Refugees," depicting a Southern Unionist family fleeing to the North. The father is carrying a gun with a small bundle of belongings, suggesting all that the family had left behind, as his wife leans against him and their son attempts to […]
Lot 554: Two John Rogers Civil War Figural Groups: The Wounded Scout, and Wounded to the Rear
1st Item: John Rogers (American, 1829 – 1904) painted Civil War plaster figural sculpture titled "The Wounded Scout – A Friend in the Swamp" depicting a Union scout who has been wounded in his arm being assisted by a black man, presumably an escaped slave, who is guiding him through a swamp. Signed and titled […]
Lot 553: Two John Rogers Civil War Figural Groups: Fugitive Story plus The Slave Auction
1st Item: John Rogers (American, 1829 – 1904) post Civil War painted plaster figural sculpture titled "The Fugitive Story" depicting the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, the minister Henry Ward Beecher, and the editor of The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison–all abolitionists in the 19th century. Also depicted is an unidentified black woman and her young child […]
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