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Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge

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Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Vintage matte-finish 9 x 7 photo of Coolidge and his secretary C. Bascom Slemp exiting a building, signed in fountain pen by both men. Photo is affixed to its original 12 x 10.75 Harris and Ewing photographer’s mount. Scattered fingerprints and surface marks, not detracting from overall appearance, otherwise fine condition. Mount shows some light toning and minor damp staining along bottom edge.

Slemp was a six-time congressman from Virginia who had stepped away from the national political scene when Coolidge tapped him to serve as Secretary to the President of the United States—a position similar to the modern day White House Chief of Staff. He served in the position for 18 months before resigning in March 1925 following unresolved friction. This desirable Harris & Ewing image, showing the pair in a relatively amicable relationship, must most likely then date to that relatively brief period in the Coolidge administration.