James A. Garfield Mourning Cabinet Card
James Garfield
n.p., n.d. but ca. 1881
James A. Garfield Mourning Cabinet Card
Cabinet Card
A mourning cabinet card depicting 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield (1831-1881), n.d. but probably produced ca. 1881, immediately after his assassination. N.p. The sepia-colored albumen photograph shows a bust portrait of Garfield, and includes his facsimile signature along the bottom of the image field. Laid down on a simple cream-colored stock card, its caption printed in red along the bottom recto as: "General Garfield / 20th President, United States." A long biographical summary and posthumous tribute is printed verso. Expected wear including scattered scuffs and foxing. The white area at lower left does not appear to be a flaw in the photo, rather it appears to be replicated from the negative. Lightly pencil-inscribed verso. Slight bowing of the card. Else near fine. 4.125" x 6.5".
The printed description framed in black mourning bands on the reverse of the card reads in part: "He was Assassinated July 2nd, 1881, and Died September 19th, 1881, amid universal heartfelt Sorrow on both sides of the Atlantic, for one who, though uncrowned, took rank with Kings. The melancholy event and international sympathy will tend more firmly to cement together the two great Anglo-Saxon nations…"
President James Garfield was shot in a Washington, DC train station lounge by disgruntled office seeker who suffered from mental illness, Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. The second bullet lodged near Garfield's pancreas and proved irretrievable despite Alexander Graham Bell's attempts to locate the bullet using the newly developing science of metal detection. After two and a half months of excruciating convalescence in the White House and along the New Jersey shore--where he was probed by many doctors unfamiliar with basic germ theory--Garfield died from complications of an infection at age 49. The presidential assassin Guiteau was executed by hanging in 1882 following one of the first American court proceedings that considered insanity as a mitigating factor.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
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James Garfield
n.p., n.d. but ca. 1881
James A. Garfield Mourning Cabinet Card
Cabinet Card
A mourning cabinet card depicting 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield (1831-1881), n.d. but probably produced ca. 1881, immediately after his assassination. N.p. The sepia-colored albumen photograph shows a bust portrait of Garfield, and includes his facsimile signature along the bottom of the image field. Laid down on a simple cream-colored stock card, its caption printed in red along the bottom recto as: "General Garfield / 20th President, United States." A long biographical summary and posthumous tribute is printed verso. Expected wear including scattered scuffs and foxing. The white area at lower left does not appear to be a flaw in the photo, rather it appears to be replicated from the negative. Lightly pencil-inscribed verso. Slight bowing of the card. Else near fine. 4.125" x 6.5".
The printed description framed in black mourning bands on the reverse of the card reads in part: "He was Assassinated July 2nd, 1881, and Died September 19th, 1881, amid universal heartfelt Sorrow on both sides of the Atlantic, for one who, though uncrowned, took rank with Kings. The melancholy event and international sympathy will tend more firmly to cement together the two great Anglo-Saxon nations…"
President James Garfield was shot in a Washington, DC train station lounge by disgruntled office seeker who suffered from mental illness, Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. The second bullet lodged near Garfield's pancreas and proved irretrievable despite Alexander Graham Bell's attempts to locate the bullet using the newly developing science of metal detection. After two and a half months of excruciating convalescence in the White House and along the New Jersey shore--where he was probed by many doctors unfamiliar with basic germ theory--Garfield died from complications of an infection at age 49. The presidential assassin Guiteau was executed by hanging in 1882 following one of the first American court proceedings that considered insanity as a mitigating factor.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
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