Lot 085 - Grouping Of Eight Antique Cabinet Card Portrait Photographs Including H.B. Bigelow, Governor Of Connecticut, With Signature, Robert Green Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel Parker Willis, And Howard Crosby 2675 Pre-Auction Notes: Rust throughout

Pre-Auction Notes: Rust throughout

Visible in the image are pennants for Yale and Etown

and 40 cents in Canada

Others have suggested that it could be of European or South American origin

Pre-Auction Notes: Minor losses and damage

Lot 085 - Grouping Of Eight Antique Cabinet Card Portrait Photographs Including H.B. Bigelow, Governor Of Connecticut, With Signature, Robert Green Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel Parker Willis, And Howard Crosby 2675 Pre-Auction Notes: Rust throughoutGrouping of eight antique cabinet card portrait photographs featuring prominent 19th century American figures, including H. B. Bigelow (Governor of Connecticut, 18341891), Robert Green Ingersoll (The Great Agnostic, lawyer and orator, 18331899), Henry Ward Beecher (abolitionist clergyman and reformer, 18131887), Nathaniel Parker Willis (writer and editor, 18061867), and Howard Crosby (Presbyterian preacher and Chancellor of New York University,