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INCLUDES LINCOLN, BOTH ROOSEVELTS, JFK,AND
TEN OTHER PRESIDENTS ON SAME PAGE
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(PRESIDENTS—CIVIL WAR—ALBUM.) Album containing over 130 signa-
tures of mostly Civil War political and military notables, including Abraham Lincoln and
nearly his entire cabinet; including Ulysses S. Grant, David Farragut and over 15 others of
the highest ranking officers of the Army and Navy; including Charles Sumner, Schuyler
Colfax, and many other leading Senators and Representatives of the 38th U.S. Congress;
and including 18 U.S. Presidents with every consecutive President from Theodore
Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Most written 2-3 per page, most on rectos only, most includ-
ing rank or state, last 17 leaves blank. 8vo, morocco, edges rubbed; front hinge cracked, first
gathering nearly loose, minor scattered soiling; cloth chemise and slipcase.
[Vp, 1864-2010]
[60,000/90,000]
Presidents: Abraham Lincoln *
Andrew Johnson * Ulysses S.
Grant * Theodore Roosevelt *
Herbert Hoover * Franklin D.
Roosevelt * Harry S. Truman *
Dwight D. Eisenhower * John F.
Kennedy * Lyndon B. Johnson
* Richard Nixon * Gerald Ford
* Jimmy Carter * Ronald
Reagan * George H.W. Bush *
Bill Clinton * George W. Bush
* Barack Obama.
The Lincoln Cabinet: Vice
Presidents Andrew Johnson and
Hannibal Hamlin * Sec. of State
William H. Seward * Secretaries
of Treasury Salmon P. Chase,
William P. Fessenden, and Hugh
McCulloch * Sec. of War Edwin M. Stanton * Sec. of the Navy Gideon Welles * Postmasters
GeneralWilliam Dennison, Jr. and Montgomery Blair * Sec. of the Interior John Palmer Usher.
Military officers: George Armstrong Custer * Philip Sheridan * Robert Anderson * David Farragut
* Henry Halleck * Nathaniel Prentice Banks * LewWallace *Winfield Scott Hancock * Benjamin
Franklin Butler * Montgomery Meigs * Quincy Adams Gillmore * William B. Hazen * John
Aaron Rawlins * James Henry Lane *William Gamble * others.
Congressmen: Charles Sumner * Solomon Foot * Daniel Clark * Schuyler Colfax * Samuel S.
Cox *Thaddeus Stevens * others.
Miscellaneous: Charles Anderson Dana * Henry Jarvis Raymond * P.T. Barnum. Autograph
Quotation Signed: “The noblest art / Is that of making others happy. / P T Barnum / March 28th
1858” * George Francis Train. Autograph Quotation Signed: “The Future / There is a rainbow in
the sky / Upon the path where tempests trod, / ‘Twas written by a hand on High / It is the
Autograph of God. / Geo:FrancisTrain” * others.
The album was purchased in 1954 from Goodspeed’s Book Shop by collector and Manuscript Society
president Herbert Klingelhofer (1915-2015), who obtained the presidential signatures beginning with
Hoover, and from whom it passed to the present owner, Klingelhofer’s descendants.
WITH
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Herbert Klingelhofer’s 1954 Goodspeed’s purchase receipt for the album * Letters from secre-
taries accepting or returning the album to be autographed, most with the original envelope: Bernice
Miller, secretary to Hoover, NewYork, 9 September 1955; Evelyn Lincoln, secretary to Kennedy, 20
February 1962; Juanita D. Roberts, secretary to Johnson, 14 April 1964; Fram Voorde, scheduling
director to Carter, 19 December 1976; David C. Fischer, secretary to Reagan, 2 December 1980;
Robert Moore, associate of G.H.W. Bush’s secretary Lisa Jobe, 28 November 1988 * Color photo-
graph showing Obama signing the album, [2010].