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Manuscripts, Autograph Letters,
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And Featuring: A Significant Offering Relating to Jews in the American Civil War.
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LOT 24:
CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH of First Lieutenant ...
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Sold for: $1,400
Start price:
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Estimated price :
$600 - $900
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
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CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH of First Lieutenant Isaac May. Chest-up view in civilian attire. Identified in pencil with erroneous unit attribution.
Photographer: Mahlers, Alexandria, Va.
Isaac May (1843-1905) was aide-de-camp to Governor Andrew Curtin of Pennsylvania.
First Lieutenant of Company E, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, May’s regiment contained many of the miners who dug the tunnel that created an explosion at the Battle of the Crater, Petersburg, Va. May.
The Shapell Manuscript Foundation has corrected May’s military service and clearly established him to be Jewish as he received a religious burial. See www.shapell.org/civil-war-soldier-database/soldier/13053.
See also Henry S. Morais, The Jews of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1894) p. 532.
PROVENANCE: Maxwell Whiteman to Norm Flayderman.
