6/26/2020 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Including African Americana - Lots | Cowan's Auction House: The Midwest's Most Trusted Auction House / Antiques / Fine Art / Art Appraisals

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Detailed Copy Appraisal of the Estate of Revolutionary War Veteran, General John McPherson, Charleston, SC, with Content Regarding Enslaved People, Incl. Names and Familial Relations, 1806

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$4,375

06/26/2020

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Illustrated Reward Broadside for Enslaved Runaway, Easton, Missouri, 1859

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Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$5,625

06/26/2020

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New Orleans Broadside Promoting Promoting Sale of Enslaved African Americans, Ca 1850s

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Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,125

06/26/2020

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Civil War-Era Broadside from Kentucky Promoting Sale of Enslaved African Americans, February 1864

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Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$5,938

06/26/2020

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CDV of Escaped Enslaved African American "Gordon" Displaying his Scars

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Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$4,688

06/26/2020

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Wilson Chinn, "Branded Slave from Louisiana," CDV

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Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,625

06/26/2020

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"Slaves from New Orleans, Learning is Wealth," Pair of CDVs Incl. Wilson Chinn Reading to the Children

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$813

06/26/2020

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"White and Black Slaves from New Orleans" CDV, Plus

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$938

06/26/2020

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"Slave Children from New Orleans," Collection of Twelve CDVs

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Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$2,625

06/26/2020

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Rare Sojourner Truth CDV

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Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,125

06/26/2020

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Sojourner Truth with Flowers CDV

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Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,000

06/26/2020

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12

Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, First Battle Creek Edition, 1878

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$2,125

06/26/2020

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13

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Stereodaguerreotype Housed in Mascher Case

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Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$10,625

06/26/2020

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Frederick Douglass CDV by J.W. Hurn

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Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,375

06/26/2020

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Frederick Douglass CDV by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, California

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Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,792

06/26/2020

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16

Frederick Douglass Autobiography My Bondage, My Freedom First Edition

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Estimate: $300 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,792

06/26/2020

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Rare Frederick Douglass' Paper, June 26, 1857 Issue, Including Coverage of Stephen Douglas's Response to the Dred Scott Decision

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,500

06/26/2020

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National Anti-Slavery Standard, Collection of Forty-One Issues

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Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$960

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Rare Abolitionist Ribbon Memorializing Elijah Parish Lovejoy, "The First Martyr to American Liberty"

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Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,375

06/26/2020

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20

John Brown Salt Print by Black and Batchelder, 1858

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Estimate: $700 - $900

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$750

06/26/2020

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John Brown's Raid and Hanging Reported in The Liberator

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,000

06/26/2020

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John Brown Execution Sketches by Albert Berghaus

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Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$6,250

06/26/2020

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23

CDV of John Brown's Fort, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Ca 1885

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$313

06/26/2020

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24

Crib Quilt with Lincoln Hidden Message

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Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$5,000

06/26/2020

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25

Signers of the Thirteenth Amendment, Composite Photograph, 1865

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Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$750

06/26/2020

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CDV of First African American United States Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, Ca 1870

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$938

06/26/2020

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CDV of Contraband Camp at Baton Rouge, 1863

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Estimate: $800 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$5,625

06/26/2020

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28

CDV of African American Subject Serving a Civil War Officer

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,500

06/26/2020

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29

CDV of Contraband Crew from the Ironclad Gunboat USS Essex

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,063

06/26/2020

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30

Four Stereoviews with African American Subject Matter, Incl. Chimney Sweeps and the Arrival of Former Enslaved People at a Union Camp

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$688

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