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CIVIL WAR, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM]. A carte-de-visite album containing 150 carte-de-visite portraits of Civil War military figures (Union and Confederate), political figures, actors and other notables of the period, most cartes with imprint of E. & H.T. Anthony of New York, n.p., n.d. [1860-1870s]. Mounted four to a page in the pockets of an 1860s album: folio, 270 x 216 mm. (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.), brown hard-grained morocco covers stamped "Photographs," pages gilt-edged, brass clasps and catches, spine defective, covers loose, most cover bosses lacking, but the cartes in very good condition, many with tiny contemporary printed captions of the subjects neatly pasted in upper portion . An outstanding album compiled probably by a New York resident with a lively interest in the military commanders and naval battles of the Civil War, as well as opera, drama and music. It is notable for the large number of Confederate figures represented. PARTIAL CONTENTS: Union officers (32): U.S. Grant (standing with his horse "Egypt"), D.D. Porter, Heintzelman, Burnside, B.F. Butler, G.H. Thomas J. Hooker, A. Doubleday, George Armstrong Custer, Admiral Farragut, G. Meade, D. Sickles, W.S. Hancock, P. Kearney, P.H. Sheridan, I. McDowell, W.T. Sherman, Grierson, John C. Fremont, J. Pope, Jas. B. McPherson, and others. Confederate political figures and officers (36): Yancey, Cobb, J.B. Floyd, Toombs, Jefferson Davis, Wigfall, H.A. Wise, A.H. Stephens, T.J. ("Stonewall") Jackson, A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart, J.B. Hood, E.K. Smith, Pemberton, L. Polk, W.J. Hardee, Beaureguard, Breckinridge, A.S. Johnston, R. Semmes, J.S. Mosby, R.S. Ewell, J.B. Magruder, R.E. Lee, B. Bragg, J. Longstreet, H. Gilmore, J.H. Morgan, Quantrill, N.B. Forrest, etc. Other subjects (79): Brigham Young, Varina Davis, Queen Victoria, Mrs. U.S. Grant, Mrs. Kellogg, Edwin Booth, L.M. Gottschalk, Mary Anderson, satirical cartoons relating to the Civil War ("Secesh taking a midnight stroll" etc.), paintings of naval actions ("The Gallant Ship Mississippi," "The Alabama"), 2 views of Libby Prison, a Civil War embalming station, and Lincoln as a banjo player, plus European landscapes and city scenes (in the latter portion). Provenance : Anonymous owner (sale, Swann Galleries, 10 November 1983, lot 243).