[Rarebooks] FS: Large, Scarce, SIGNED Photograph of Julia Ward Howe with her daughters, from the estate of her daughter Laura Richards

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog containing 45 items related to WOMEN AND THEIR 
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HOWE, Julia Ward. PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED. . A fairly large image (7-1/4" x 
9-1/4") mounted on 10" x 13" stiff board with the photographer's stamp 
at the bottom center "Alman & Co./436 Fifth Ave., N.Y./and Newport, 
R.I." depicting an elderly Howe holding a baby and surrounded by three 
family members including her two daughters who wrote the Pulitzer Prize 
winning biography of their mother. SIGNED in ink below the image: "Julia 
Ward Howe/Jan. 26th, 1904." The verso of the photograph is SIGNED by one 
of those daughters, Laura Richards: "Mrs. Henry Richards/Gardiner, 
Maine." Dampstaining nearly entirely restricted to the margins and 
mostly visible on the rear, hardly affecting the photograph and not 
touching Howe's signature. Very Good.

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 near 
the beleaguered capital of Washington at the beginning of the Civil War. 
It earned her the grand total of $5 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 
quite scarce. (#016165)        $5,000.00

Here are a couple of blurry images:

http://home.ptd.net/~chagvent/016165.jpg

http://home.ptd.net/~chagvent/016165a.jpg

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