PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD - PHOTOGRAPH MOUNT SIGNED - HFSID 292717
Sale Price $2,975.00
Reg. $3,500.00
JAMES A. GARFIELD
4x6½ cabinet card photo, signed on the mount, matted and framed to
12¾x16
Photograph Mount signed: "J. A. Garfield". B/w, 4x6½. Harroun
& Bierstadt artotype cabinet card, matted and framed to an overall size of
12¾x16. James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) rose to the rank of
Major General in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, participating in the
battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga, before resigning his commission to take a
seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863-1880). A political
moderate, Garfield was the compromise choice of a deadlocked Republican
Convention in 1880, nominated on the 36th ballot and elected President by a
narrow margin. Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker helped
advance the cause of civil service reform which he had advocated. This
photograph of Garfield was taken by Horace W. Tibbals, who lived seven miles
from Garfield's home in Mentor, Ohio, from 1871 to 1884. He sent the original
image to the well-known firm of Harroun & Bierstadt in New York, who
produced this cabinet card for the Presidential campaign of 1880. It was signed
by Garfield either as a Presidential candidate or as President. Shot on July 2
1881, Garfield died on September 19, only 200 days into his term. Signatures of
Garfield as President, are thus extremely rare. Lightly toned and soiled.
Otherwise, fine condition. Not Framed in Gallery of History
Style.
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