[CIVIL WAR] Julia Ward Howe & Thomas G. Shearman Signatures & CDVs

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Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

By Fleischer's Auctions

Oct 10, 2025

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Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  Studio bust albumen portrait of Julia Ward Howe. N.p., n.d. Approx. 2 x 3 1/2 in. Framed with cut signature. N.p., 12  August 1881. Approx. 3 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. 

   

  WITH Studio bust albumen portrait of Thomas G. Shearman. N.p., n.d. Approx. 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. Framed with cut signature. N.p., 11 March 1876. Approx. 5 x 2 3/4 in. 

   

  A fine presentation of social activists Julia Ward Howe, best remembered for composing "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and abolitionist Thomas G. Shearman.  

   

  The daughter of Samuel Ward III and Julia Rush Cutler Ward, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, poet, abolitionist, and suffragist, best remembered for writing the patriotic song “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” which was first published in Atlantic Monthly in 1862. A committed abolitionist and Unionist, she volunteered with the U.S. Sanitary Commission throughout the Civil War. She continued her activism after the war, supporting women's suffrage and peace movements, as well as publishing the pacifist Mothers' Day Proclamation in 1870. The signature recorded was penned the same year Howe was elected president of the Association for the Advancement of Women. 

   

  Thomas G. Shearman (1834-1900) was a lawyer and political scientist whose career included the defense of William "Boss" Tweed during the Tammany Hall era of New York politics. According to his biographer, Walter K. Earle, Shearman was an abolitionist who attempted to enlist in the Union Army at the outbreak of war, but his poor eyesight precluded him from service (Sherman and Sterling, p. 2).

   

  Note: This lot cannot be packaged and shipped in-house. Successful bidders winning items marked as being packaged and shipped by a third-party service are responsible for paying the third party directly. We are happy to offer complimentary drop-off service to local third-party packing/shipping companies in Columbus, Ohio.

   

  [Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards] [Women, Women’s History, Suffragettes, Women’s Movement, Suffrage]

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  Not examined out of frame. 

  Frame measures 11 7/16 x 14 1/2 in. 

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