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Signed Photograph
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SMC 132
Signed photo of Mark Twain on the occasion of his speaking tour about his excursion to the Holy Land.
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo from First Washington Sitting, With John Hay Note of Authentication
1861
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Signed Photograph
2 pages
SMC 216
One day after sneaking into Washington from Baltimore under cover of darkness, Lincoln, exhausted and pensive, sits as president-elect for this photo—his first taken in Washington.
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Herzl Signed Photo Commemorating His Visit in Jerusalem With Kaiser Wilhelm II
November 3, 1898
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2 pages
SMC 332
Photo of Herzl signed on the verso with a reference to the day he spent in Jerusalem.
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2 pages
SMC 335
A rare signed photograph of Theodore Herzl, addressed to Fraulein Fini Ungar of Vienna.
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Roderick Cole's 1858 Beardless Photo of Abraham Lincoln--Signed "Yours Truly, A. Lincoln"
1858
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1 page
SMC 383
Abraham Lincoln sat for this photo in Roderick Cole's studio in 1858, and reportedly said to Mr. Cole, "I cannot see why all you artists want a likeness of me unless it is because I am the homeliest man in the State of Illinois."
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President-Elect Lincoln Grows His Beard: This Second Photograph, Signed, Depicts the Progress
January 26, 1861
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Signed Photograph
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SMC 384
At the advice of fellow Republicans, and even an eleven-year-old girl, Abraham Lincoln decided to grow a beard. This photograph depicts the progress of Lincoln's increasingly famous beard.
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Theodore Roosevelt Inscribes Photo of His 1905 Inaugural Address With His Keystone "Square Deal" Credo
May 19, 1905
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Signed Photograph
1 page
SMC 466
Theodore Roosevelt famously argued for each man not to be treated in accordance with his wealth but for his value as a person--otherwise known as a "square deal." Roosevelt emphasized this in his 1905 inaugural address, of which this is a photo with his inscription of the square deal.
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Signed Photograph
1 page
SMC 785
Scarce signed photograph of Alfred Dreyfus, from the collection of the actor and Dreyfusard, Constant Coquelin.
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Signed Photo of Challenger Astronaut Judy Resnik-Second American Woman, and First American Jew, in Space
1983
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1 page
SMC 820
Signed photo of doomed Challenger astronaut Judy Resnik-the second American woman, and the first American Jew, in space
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Millard Fillmore, Perusing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852, Prophesizes About Civil War
April 8, 1852
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Autograph Letter Signed
3 pages
SMC 1072
Upon receiving a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, President Millard Fillmore reflects on the "vexing" problem of slavery, commenting almost prophetically, "Who can penetrate the dark future and say whether this ever disturbing subject may not send this Union asunder," and confesses that he "can not look without apprehension to the future."
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Abraham Lincoln's Inscription on a Photograph to Lucy Speed, Who Had Gifted Him a Bible
October 3, 1861
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SMC 1097
President Abraham Lincoln expresses his gratitude to Mrs. Lucy Speed, the mother of his best friend when he was in his twenties. Mrs. Speed had given the younger melancholy Abraham Lincoln a Bible and instructed him to read it and adopt its precepts; help would follow.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: At Fort Stevens, Abraham Lincoln Was Forced to Duck From Enemy Fire
June 14, 1922
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Autograph Letter Signed
1 page
SMC 1106
Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes confirms that during the Civil War, when he was serving as a captain, President Abraham Lincoln came to visit the troops at Fort Stevens, during which they were fired upon. This was the only time in American history a sitting president has exposed himself to combat. President Lincoln was forced to duck from enemy fire.
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Signed Photograph
1 page
SMC 1200
President Hayes inscribes this photograph for his dear friend and avid collector, Thomas Donaldson.
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SMC 1243
Rare signed photograph of Benjamin Harrison as President.
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A Ronald Reagan Photo in Front of the Berlin Wall, Inscribed With "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
1987
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SMC 1471
Autograph quote from Ronald Reagan on a photo of him in front of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg gate. The famous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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An Early Civil War Treatise on Gunshot Wounds By Surgeon General P.J. Horowitz
January, 1862
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Autograph Document Signed
6 pages
SMC 1639
P.J. Horwitz, a Baltimore Jew appointed Surgeon General of the Navy, describes in detail the variety of gunshot wounds, and their treatment, early in the Civil War, as most surgeons had not yet encountered gunshot wounds.
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Carte de Visite
1 page
SMC 1683
Photo signed as Samuel Clemens, taken in 1867 in Constantinople by Abdullah Frères. Clemens was in the midst of his trip on "The Quaker City," which also took him to the Holy Land.
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Abraham Lincoln Carte-de-Visite Photo By Mathew Brady of Which Lincoln Said "I Look Most Like That One"
January 8, 1864
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Carte de Visite
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SMC 1694
Lincoln sat for his portrait more than forty times, but he said that if he had to pick an image that looked most like him, it would be this one.
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo: The "Solitary Pine Pose," From the January 8, 1864 Sitting
January 8, 1864
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SMC 1702
One of five photographs of Abraham Lincoln taken by Mathew Brady in Washington on January 8, 1864, it is sometimes called "The Solitary Pine" pose, from the comment by Francis Grierson, who saw Lincoln debate Douglas. Lincoln, he said, "rose from his seat, stretched his long, bony limbs upwards as if to get them in working order and stood like some solitary pine on a lonely summit."
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Carte de Visite
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SMC 1764
This photograph was taken in Baltimore, where the German rabbi had his first American congregation, and where he eventually had to flee for his life due to his outspoken opposition to slavery. He would never return.
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Signed Photograph Inscribed
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SMC 1771
Inscribed photo by Thomas Edison, identifying himself as the inventor of the light bulb.
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SMC 1772
In direct contrast to Kaiser Wilhelm II's entrance to Jerusalem on horseback, Edmund Allenby respectfully dismounted before entering the Holy City. He was the first Christian to rule Jerusalem in centuries.
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At the End of His Life, Albert Einstein Writes Check to His Beloved Hebrew University
January 13, 1955
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Check Signed
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SMC 1814
The Hebrew University was a dream towards which Einstein devoted a considerable amount of time, including serving on its board, speaking at its inauguration, and bequeathing all of his papers to it. Nearing the end of his life, he wrote this check, in 1955 for $10 (equivalent to $90 in today's money) to the American Friends of the Hebrew University.
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Signed Photograph
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SMC 2076
The iconic photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; inscribed to Cecil Stoughton, the photographer.
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Carte de Visite
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SMC 2230
Selah Merrill, known primarily as the longtime U.S. Consul to Jerusalem, famous for his antipathy for the Jewish people there, as well as anyone outside of mainstream Protestantism, was also, ironically, a chaplain with the 49th Colored Infantry during the Civil War. This rare carte-de-visite photo dates from his year's service in that capacity.
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Signed Photograph
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SMC 2316
Perhaps the most iconic photo of Theodor Herzl, taken on the balcony of the Three Kings Hotel in Basel, Switzerland, in December of 1901. Signed.
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