An absolutely amazing collection of over 20,000 items which encompasses many fields of autograph collecting, and spans from the 1800s to the mid-to-late 20th century. Collection consists of signed photos, carte-de-visites, signatures, letters (in English and foreign languages), autograph albums, and a smattering of other formats. Much of the collection is housed in three-ring binders and two jam-packed file cabinets. The vast array of notables contained in the collection span from presidents and first ladies, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, Civil War officers, luminaries of stage and screen, authors and poets, composers, musicians, opera and ballet, artists, and many, many more. Collection rates in overall very good to fine condition. Also due to the vast number of items, a few secretarial/and or printed signatures may be included. Due to the enormity of the collection please be advised that extra shipping charges will apply. The sheer overwhelming volume of items precludes a list, and interested parties are strongly advised to view the collection in person at our offices, as this collection is sold as is, and no returns will be accepted. Collections of this size and scope are seldom offered in whole, and with thousands of pieces, there are undoubtedly still many discoveries that lie within.
A small sampling of names includes:
Berenice Abbott
Ansel Adams
Muhammad Ali
Richard Avedon
Robert Baden-Powell
Nathaniel P. Banks
Frederic Bartholdi
Katharine Lee Bates
Cecil Beaton
Sarah Bernhardt
Leonard Bernstein
Albert Bierstadt
James G. Blaine
Ray Bolger
Gutzon Borglum
Margaret Bourke-White
Phillips Brooks
Blanche Bruce
William Jennings Bryan
James Buchanan
Don Carlos Buell
Thornton Burgess
Billie Burke
John Burroughs
Benjamin Butler
Enrico Caruso
Carrie Chapman Catt
Maurice Chevalier
Howard Chandler Christy
Frances Cleveland
Jacqueline Cochran
George M. Cohan
Calvin Coolidge
Allan Roy Dafoe
Jack Dempsey
Chauncey M. Depew
George Dewey
John A. Dix
Stephen A. Douglas
Duke of Wellington
Alexandre Dumas (fils)
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
David Farragut
Cyrus W. Field
James Montgomery Flagg
John C. Fremont
William Gillette
Louis M. Goldsborough
Jay Gould
Horace Greeley
Richard Haliburton
Benjamin Harrison
Mary Lind Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Herbert Hoover
O. O. Howard
Julia Ward Howe
Elbert Hubbard (2)
Andrew Johnson
Al Jolson
Buck Jones
Yousef Karsh
Helen Keller
Rockwell Kent
Hank Ketcham
Ernie Kovacs
Joseph Lister
John A. Logan
Carole Lombard
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Douglas MacArthur
William Mahone
Horace Mann
Jules Massenet
W. Somerset Maugham
George B. McClellan
Wesley Merritt
Nelson A. Miles
Paul Newman
Richard Nixon
Georgia O’Keeffe
Barney Oldfield
Richard Peary
John J. Pershing
Fitz John Porter
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hyman Rickover
Bill Robinson
Richard Rodgers
Eleanor Roosevelt
William S. Rosecrans
Richard Rush
John M. Schofield
Carl Schurz
William Seward
George Bernard Shaw
William Shockley
Daniel Sickles
Franz Sigel
Alfred E. Smith
Edwin Stanton
Edward Steichen
Thaddeus Stevens
William H. Taft
Virgil Thomson
Alice B. Toklas
Robert Toombs
Jack Webb
Joseph Wheeler
Thornton Wilder
Oliver Wolcott, Jr RR Auction COA.
