The Photographic History of the Civil War
1910TB28561Springfield Mass.: Patriot Publishing Company c1910. A prospectus or salesman's sample of the ten volume set ultimately published by The Review of Reviews in 1911. This is an envelope 12 1/4 by 12 11/16 inches with a paper label the text of which is detailed below. The envelope contains a color cover plate showing the set with an imprint of the Patriot Publishing Company plus 18 black and white photographic plates on pages measuring 12 1/4 by 11 3/4 inches with extensive printed descriptions beneath each photograph. The paper label on the front of the envelope reads as follows: "Photographic Prints of Civil War pictures taken by Mathew B. Grady. These wonderful negatives made by order of President Lincoln then buried for nearly half a century have been discovered in time for the semi-centennial celebration of the Civil War in 1911. Being a few of the 3500 rare photographs contain in the "Photographic History of the Civil War" in ten volumes published by the Review of Reviews Company New York." Patriot Publishing Company unknown books
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