Thirty ink signatures on individual cards, each approximately 3 x 2, affixed to a backing and framed to an overall size of 18 x 13.5. Signers are: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andrew Johnson, U. S. Grant, Samuel F. B. Morse, Philip Sheridan, John Pierpont, Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, Daniel S. Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thaddeus Stevens, William Seward, Wendell Phillips, William Cullen Bryant, Schuyler Colfax, Gerrit Smith, George William Curtis, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, Horace Greeley, James Parton, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Andrew Curtin, Winfield Scott Hancock, Theodore Tilton, Fitz-Greene Halleck, George G. Meade, John Adams Dix, and William Gannaway Brownlow. In overall very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, and Whittier and Halleck signatures extremely light and only somewhat visible. A highly desirable group that features a unique combination of influential 19th century figures. RR Auction COA.
