Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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April 07
On This Day
On this day in 1862 the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee in the American Civil War and in 1891 P. T. Barnum died. He was the American businessman and politician who co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus
BARNUM (Phineas T., 1810-1891, American Showman, Founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus)
Excellent cabinet photo by Eisenmann in New York signed, showing him head and shoulders full face, as an elderly man, 6½” x 4¼”, New York, no date but circa 1870
38266
[GRANT (Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885, American Soldier & 18th President of the United States)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date,
22958
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