Posted 14 years ago
officialfuel
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The photo album is red and has 50 pictures inside. I found a few pictures of a soldiers. One soldier in particular on his hat it shows US. All the rest of pictures must be of the family and relatives. Some of the photos are tin. One month later...When I first listed this album I had no clue who the officer was. After putting the album on CollectorsWeekly a certain individual who had seen it thought to himself, I know this person in the photo. He ask me to take a better picture. By him asking me to do that, I started taking a few photos out of the album. Well when I took out the photo of the officer, it was on the photo US Grant. I couldn't believe it. That album has been sitting on my table ever since I bought it almost 15 years ago. I want to thank this individual for all his help. I want to thank all the people on this site that go out of there way to help others! CollectorsWeekly Rocks!!!!!
What a Treasure! Dave
Thanks Dave
It is a nice find, congrats. The sad part of these old photo albums is that no one ever thought to put names and places on the back of the photos. I hope your's does have some family names inside, it would be interesting to find out just who that soldier was.
YardSaleDave there are some names on some of the pictures but I would'nt know where to start. Thanks.
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WOW!!! That's all I can say. Very nice.
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It looks like something off a Horror Movie!
Ever seen the Movie "Army of Darkness" with Bruce Campbell?
Thank you Shawnl86 for your comment, no I've never seen that movie.
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Thank you AR8Jason! I will try and do that sometime next week.
Thank you savethetoys for your comment.
AR8Jason, I went through the album and found 15 different names. I will list these for you and some more pictures. It may not happen today but I will do this for you.
Thank you wolcott1!
Here are the names that are in the album. Ama Armstrong, Martin Williamson, Lute Potter, Ezar Seymour, Eama Seymour, Uncle Grid Potter, Uncle Brouer & Aunt Jennie, Aunt Mary Ricketts, Uncle John & Aunt Sallie, Uncle Brouer Clement, Uncle Will Platt, Aunt Nancy Platt, Aunt Annabel Platt, Emma Wi_ _ _ can't make out the last signature. Hope this will help. No name on the officer.
No, I afraid If I try a take the picture out it will rip the album.
I got one out and it says from Walton's Gallary, Main Street Aurora, Indiana
The names are hand written under the picture of the person in the album
No name on that picture, get me a few moments and let me go through and see if I can get another out.
On the back of Lute Potter picture , J. M. McIntosh, PhotoGrapher,Cor. Elizabeth and main Street, Rushville, Indiana
Found another name, Harry Gurr, Under picture it says Man Fish... The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit
You not going to believe this Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, Published by H...Anthony 501 Broadway,N.Y.
Are you there
Is this a rare find!
Wasn't a book written on Harry Gurr, The Man Fish?
I believe I found another picture of Grant, not in uniform.
This album has sat on my table for over 15 years and I never gave it any thought until I put it here on CollectorsWeekly!
Thank you for all your help and info!!!!! I will try and get these photograph and show you.
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Your guy in the photograph next to Grant is a soldier as well.
Any name on the back of it?
No sir no name. The soldier is in a uniform and I took picture out but no name. Thank you for looking scottvez!
AR8Jason it might be at the end of the summer now. I'm very busy, but thanks for your interest. :-)
i love gas&oil stuff but this is absolutely amazing
Thank you so much oilman514. Thanks for such a nice comment. As you can see I have so many collections! I love alot of things.
offcialfuel, This is one of the most interesting thing I've read about on CW. It has sparked my interest in something totally different. Love and and thank you for sharing .
Thank you PassingFancy and thank you kerry10456 for the interest into a new field of collecting.
It is actually fairly common to find images of famous folks in a Civil War carte de visite (CDV) album and rarely implies a family connection to the subject.
CDVs of the famous were produced in high numbers and collected-- they were the "baseball cards" of the era.
Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln, Grant, and McClellan are probably the most commonly found subjects.
An obscure Brigadier General might indicate a particular Regimental affiliation of a soldier who is also in the album.
Thank you scottvez for the info! Have a great day! :-)
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that is so cool looks like a prop in a 18oo's biblical movie.
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I don't know how I missed this amazing story all of these months, but thanks, flyrr100, for loving it and bringing it to my attention! I've read over the comments several times now. What a find, officialfuel, but what a shame someone let this wonderful album out of their family.
Thank you marcobabe13 for taking the time to stop by and commenting and showing some love on this great old album! :-)
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Hmmm ... somehow I missed this when originally posted. Nice album design.
Hopefully I will post more photos in the near future; there are still some interesting cabs and CDVs to pop on CW, but I don't have any albums. And ... I just finished negotiating the acquisition of a small 1880s American wood & brass view camera outfit as well as six intriguing images; of which several are pictures of photographers posing with their cameras. One image (in particular) is actually a large, multi-image cabinet card (at least it appears to be) with an array of 36 small 'gem' photos of a nude female study (tasteful poses though).
I look forward to seeing the images-- esp. the photographers!
I have several and they always command a lot of interest (and usually corresponding high prices).
scott
Thank you rniederman for the love and for your comment! I still have the album and one of these days I will post some more photos. I love all your cameras! Awesome collection!
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What a treasure!!! I'm dreaming to find something similar!!!
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Michael
Great photo of Grant. I recognized who it was instantly. When Grant was running president the photo studio cranked out thousands of copies of this photo and most of them haven't survived the test of time. I bought a photo of an Indian chief for $7 at a junk store in Oklahoma and resold it for over $700. I am sure you could get the same results with Grant's photo. Again beautiful photo.
This particular Grant image is lithographic and doesn't command the same monetary interest as "photographic" views. Large numbers are out there-- it seems that many families put a Grant view into their photograph albums.
Many photographic views of Grant can be found for less than $100.
scott
Amazing story. You found what many of us in here strive to find - a one of a kind historic treasure.