Beschreibung:

includes one album from Maine with about 40 images, including six images of Alfred Pearl, U.S. Coastal Survey, who died at sea off the coast of South America, with Maine and D.C. backmarks, PLUS uniformed image of Lt. Wm. H. Coan, Adj. Field and Staff of 7th Maine Infantry with New York backmark, engagements include siege of Yorktown, Mechanicsville, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, South Mt., Antietam where it lost 11 officers and 100 men, White Oak Church, Chancellorsville, Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Weldon R.R., and the fight against Early's advance on Washington and the following Shenandoah campaign. A unit with quite an impressive battle record. Album also includes five sixth plate daguerreotypes, family names include Smith, Pearl, Sellmer, Foster, Freeman, Johnson, and Coan. Many of these images are identified and even give date and place of death, PLUS fine album with marquetry inlaid cover with scene of mother and child carrying baskets in mixed hardwoods with leather spine, with 19 CDVs mainly of European royalty, including images of Ottoman Empire sultan and one of his wives with Constantinople backmark, PLUS 22 portraits, mainly with Ohio backmarks, AND fourth-sixth CDV albums are empty, both with intact leather boards and brass clasps, first with sleeves for about 24-50 CDVs, each. Provenance: Ex James E. Sanders Collection Condition: Most CDVs VG to G+, daguerreotypes with scratches, albums somewhat worn but intact.