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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1488

Politics: PT Barnum and Others American showman and politician (1810-81); his circus and museum fed (and fed on) the nation´s fascination with the extraordinary - or simply bizarre. An unusual 50-page leather-bound Civil War-era Photograph Album with brass clasps, featuring cartes-de-visite Photographs of 72 members of the Connecticut government, primarily its legislature, with a postwar CDV of Ulysses S. Grant, 8 CDVs of an unidentified family (probably that of Thomas W. Wheeler), along with 11 Tintypes from the same family. Beside the photograph of Representative Phineas T. Barnum is tipped a Manuscript Letter Signed "P.T. Barnum," 3/4 page, 8vo, on stationery engraved with an image of his home, "Lindencroft," in Bridgeport, June 30, 1865. He sends Thomas Wheeler his photograph along with one of his museum, as "mementos of our meeting in the Connecticut Legislature this year." Letter foxed and soiled, as is the album in general, though it and its contents are in VG condition.

Sold for
$900