[Berryman, Clifford]: [Scott, Alexander]:

$9,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

[AUTOGRAPH ALBUM OF TURN-OF-THE-20th-CENTURY AMERICAN POLITICAL FIGURES, ASSEMBLED BY MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER ALEXANDER SCOTT, WITH EACH SIGNATURE ACCOMPANIED BY AN INK PORTRAIT BY THE AWARD-WINNING ... A fascinating autograph album assembled by Alexander Scott, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and later Assistant Chief in the Draughtsman's Division of the U.S. Patent Office. Virtually every autograph is accompanied by a wonderful portrait drawn by the talented Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, Clifford Berryman. Featured among the portraits and autographs are such notables of the time as Grover Cleveland; four vice presidents—Garrett A. Hobart, Charles Fairbanks, James S. Sherman, and Thomas R. Marshall; Secretary of War Elihu Root; Secretary of State John Hay; American Red Cross President Clara Barton; and Admiral George Dewey.Alexander Scott took advantage of life in Washington to assemble a wide range of autographs. The majority in this volume are dated 1898 but run to 1916, providing a fine visual and autograph record of notables in the William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft administrations. The signers include: Ohio senators Mark Hanna and John Sherman (brother of W.T. Sherman, and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act); Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii, along with Hawaiian ministers Lorrin A. Thurston and Francis M. Hatch; Clement M. Butler, Chaplain of the Senate; Major General Nelson A. Miles, Commanding General of the U.S. Army; f

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