[LINCOLNIANA]. Album containing 50 CDVs of personalities from the US and abroad, featuring the Abraham Lincoln "Cooper Union" pose by Mathew Brady.

Approx. 6 x 4 3/4 in. album manufactured by Goupil & Co., New York, containing 50 CDVs, including a combination of "from life" photographs and images after lithographs/engravings of politicians, generals, European royalty, and other personalities of the era. The name of the subject, when available, is written on the album page, above each photograph (not on the photograph itself). Multiple photographers/publishers are represented in the album, most notably Mathew Brady (New York), Whipple (Boston), Silsbee, Case & Co. (Boston), Black & Batchelder (Boston), and Disderi (France).

The centerpiece of the album is a CDV featuring the "Cooper Union" portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken by Mathew Brady in New York on 27 February 1860, just one day prior to Lincoln delivering his famous address at the Cooper Institute (O-17). Verso with E. & H.T. Anthony/Brady imprint.

Additional subjects include (as identified on album page): Emperor of Russia.-- Empress of Russia. -- Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. -- Charles, Comte de Flahaut. -- Charles Louis Joseph Demorny, Duke of Morny. -- General Winfield Scott. -- The Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff. -- Prince Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. -- Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy. -- Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies with her daughter Isabella II. -- Empress Eugenie of France. -- Kaiser Wilhelm I, King of Prussia. -- Victor Emmanuel - King of Sardinia. -- Lucius Manlius Sargent. -- Horace Binney Sargent. -- Ignatius Sargent.-- Isabella Pratt Welles Hunnewell. -- Arthur Hunnewell.-- Francis Chadwick. --Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial. -- François d'Orléans, Prince de Joinville. -- Prince Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris.-- Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres.-- Edward Everett.-- Martin Van Buren.-- "Rigolboche" Amelia Marguerite Bedel. --Adelaide Borghi-Mamo.-- Harriet Hosmer.-- Charlotte Cushman.-- Octavius Brooks Frothingham.-- John Lothrop Motley. -- Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen of the Two Sicilies.-- Henri, Count of Chambord and Duke of Bordeaux.-- Lovisa, Queen of Sweden and Norway.-- Carl, King of Sweden and Norway. -- Dr. James Jackson.-- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop.-- Rufus Ellis.-- Abdülmecid I, Sultan.-- Franz Joseph I of Austria.-- Mathilde Bonaparte.

CDVs generally good to very good, with occasional toning and soiling. Interior pages intact but detached from album cover.

Lincoln CDV: Near excellent condition.

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[LINCOLNIANA]. Album containing 50 CDVs of personalities from the US and abroad, featuring the Abraham Lincoln "Cooper Union" pose by Mathew Brady.

CDVs generally good to very good, with occasional toning and soiling. Interior pages intact but detached from album cover.

Lincoln CDV: Near excellent condition.

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[LINCOLNIANA]. Album containing 50 CDVs of personalities from the US and abroad, featuring the Abraham Lincoln "Cooper Union" pose by Mathew Brady.

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