April 8, 2025
Rare, Significant Photographic Image of Lincoln will Headline University Archives’ Auction, Apr 23
On Wednesday, April 23rd, auction house University Archives will present an extraordinary artifact: a photographic image of President Abraham Lincoln, created circa 1895-1900 by George B. Ayres (1829-1905) using Alexander Hesler’s (1823-1895) original 1860 collodion negative of Portrait Sitting No. 2. Objects of this profound historical consequence and rare visual immediacy rarely come to auction….
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April 6, 2025
University Archives’ Online-Only Auction, April 23rd, will Feature Over 60 Lots Dedicated to Lincoln
A vivid and lifelike photograph of Abraham Lincoln with Hesler/Ayres provenance, a one-page letter signed by Lincoln in 1859 and addressed to a man he’d defended in a murder trial, and a one-page autograph letter written in Hebrew in 1948 by the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion are three of many tantalizing items in…
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