1860's Vice President Schuyler Colfax Signed & Inscribed Cdv Photograph / Photo For Sale

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The Photograph itself measures approx. 2 1/8” by 3 3/8” and is mounted on its original, square corner, Card Mount (the mount measures 2 3/8” by 4”). The Photograph is signed and inscribed by Colfax who has autographed the Image below the vignette portrait with manuscript text that reads "Truly your friend, / Schuyler Colfax / for Dr. Foster".

This outstanding Signed and Inscribed CDV Portrait Photograph of Schuyler Colfax came to us as part of a group of 1860's Civil War related CDV Photographs recently purchased from an estate in northEastern Massachusetts containing outstanding Portraits (some signed) of Civil War Soldiers, Officers and Political Figures. These Photographs are fresh to the market and we are proud to be offering these rare and in some cases important Albumen CDV's, without reserve, as part of our weekly sale.

This rare and wonderful CDV Photograph is in very good condition. The Image exhibits sharp focus and good contrast and tonality. Both the Albumen Photograph and the Card Mount are clean and crisp and well preserved. The signature and inscription is dark and bold and neatly executed.

The autograph of Schuyler Colfax is unconditionally guaranteed authentic and original and is backed by our “no questions asked” return policy and lifetime guarantee of authenticity. The CDV Photograph and the Signatures are unconditionally guaranteed to be deemed authentic by any third party authentication service and the Photograph will be accompanied by our own Letter of Authenticity with a statement of our unconditional return policy and guarantee of authenticity.

A very rare and important, 1860's, Signed and Inscribed CDV Photograph of Vice president Schuyler Colfax and a fantastic addition to any collection!!

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Nathaniel Prentice Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician and soldier who served as Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War. Banks served as a Democrat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853, and was speaker in 1851 and 1852; he was president of the state Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the same year was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a coalition candidate of Democrats and Free-Soilers. In 1854, he was reelected as a Know Nothing.

At the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress, men from several parties opposed to slavery's spread gradually united in supporting Banks for speaker, and after the longest and one of the most bitter speakership contests ever, lasting, from December 3, 1855 to February 2, 1856, he was chosen on the 133rd ballot. This has been called the first national victory of the Republican party. He gave antislavery men important posts in Congress for the first time, and cooperated with investigations of both the Kansas conflict and the caning of Senator Charles Sumner. Yet, he also left a legacy of fairness in his appointments and decisions. He played a key role in 1856 in bringing forward John C. Frémont as a moderate Republican presidential nominee. As a part of this process, Banks declined, as pre-arranged, the presidential nomination of those Know-Nothings, opposed to the spread of slavery, in favor of Republican Frémont. For the next few years, Banks was supported by a coalition of Know-Nothings and Republicans in Massachusetts. His interest in the Know-Nothing legislative agenda was minimal, supporting only some tougher residency requirements for voting.

Re-elected in 1856 as a Republican, he resigned his seat in December 1857, and was governor of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1860, during a period of government contraction forced by the depression of those years. He made a serious attempt to gain the Republican presidential nomination in 1860, but discord within his party in Massachusetts, a residence in a "safe" Republican state, and his Know-Nothing past doomed his chances.

As the Civil War became imminent, President Abraham Lincoln considered Banks for a cabinet post, and eventually chose him as one of the first major generals of volunteers, appointing him on May 16, 1861. He served until August 1865 seeing action in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with the Army of the Gulf, at the Siege of Port Hudson and in the Red River Campaign.

Overseasshippping is extra and cost will be quoted at buyers request. Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% sales tax.

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