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Press Releases tagged with American history

Thomas J. Dimsdale. The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains … Virginia City, Montana Territory: Montana Post Press, D.W. Tilton & Co., 1866, with advertising broadside: Now Completed and for Sale! An Impartial and Correct History of the Vigilantes of Montana Territory! … D.W. Tilton & Co., 1866.

In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society at Grolier Club

Released: September 17, 2012

In honor of the bicentennial of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the Grolier Club of New York is hosting a public exhibition entitled In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society, on view through November 17, 2012. The American Antiquarian Society is a renowned research library of American history and culture through 1876. It has been described by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood as “the greatest collection of early Americana in the world.” Begu...

Collodion Negative of Abraham Lincoln's Last Sitting - estimate $40,000/60,000

COWAN'S AUCTIONS, INC. TO HOST JUNE 21 AMERICAN HISTORY AUCTION

Released: June 11, 2012

Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. will host their American History, Including the Civil War Auction on June 21, 2012. The 400-lot auction will be held in Cowan’s salesroom, in Cincinnati, OH, and will include scarce daguerreotypes, photographs of the American West, 19th century photography, manuscripts, books, maps, political campaign ephemera and flags. “This sale is rich in diversity,” notes Katie Horstman, Director, American History Department. “From the stereoscopic colloidon negative produced during Abraham Lincoln’s last sitting, to the rare CDV of famed gunfighter and scout Wild Bill Hickok...

E-Glove, 2007, Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 inches

Kinetic Splendor: The Negro Leagues and Beyond

Released: February 27, 2012

The Museum of Art and Origins is celebrating Black History Month and MLB Spring Training with the Art of Lou Grant Lou Grant's oil paintings and wood engravings of on-field action and idealized portraits of historic Negro Leagues baseball players are a remembrance of the spirit of another time. Grant is master of the tension between the ambient stillness in a ball park and the explosive kinetic effort that instantly follows. This is beautifully framed in the arrested motion of the athletes he portrays. This combined sense of stillness and motion will remind the art connoisseur of the a...