[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Signed Photograph of Julia Ward Howe

[Charles Agvent]

HOWE,  Julia Ward. PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED. Oval image 4" x 6"
          on an 8"  x  10"  sheet of paper with the  printed  statement
          "Copyright  1902  by J. E. Purdy, Boston" on the  bottom  and
          the photographer's  embossed  stamp in the corner. Signed  by
          Purdy in  pencil at the lower corner of the image which is of
          an elderly  Howe  glancing to the side. SIGNED in ink  "Julia
          Ward Howe/February,  1904" below the photograph. Howe, active
          in the  women's  suffrage movement, is perhaps best known  as
          the author  of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," written  at
          night in  a  dark  tent  near   the  beleaguered  capital  of
          Washington  at the beginning of the Civil War. It earned  her
          the grand  total  of $4 upon its publication in THE  ATLANTIC
          MONTHLY  along  with the added bonus of instant  and  lasting
          fame. Later  she  became president of the New  England  Woman
          Suffrage  Association  as  well  as the  Association  of  the
          Advancement  of  Women. Howe was honored as the  first  woman
          elected  to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908,
          two years  before her death at 91. Signed photographs of Howe
          are excessively  rare  with  no example recorded  selling  at
          auction  for at least the last 30 years and no other  example
          to our knowledge offered privately. Lovely image in an older,
          decorative frame.                                    $7500.00



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