The Electoral Commission. From the Original Painting

by . . Fassett, photog., artist C. Adèle Fassett

$650 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Washington D.C., 1878. Gedney, photo-lith., 466 Penn. Ave. Washington D.C. Albumen print, 4.2” x 5”, plus margins. CONDITION: Very good. A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett’s noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key.The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican

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