Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Impressive vintage matte-finish 14 x 10.25 photo of President McKinley and his wife Ida, Vice President Garret Hobart, other members of McKinley’s cabinet and other dignitaries sitting on a decorated review stand, signed in fountain pen by McKinley, Hobart, Jennie Hobart, John W. Griggs (attorney general), Ethan Hitchcock (secretary of the interior), O. D. Seavey (manager of the Ponce de Leon Hotel), Elizabeth P. Griggs, and Princess Elizabeth Huntington Prentice. Matted and framed to an overall size of 19 x 15. Several noticeable cracks and creases, with some lightly affecting the signatures but not affecting their legibility, a few signatures a shade or two light, with one signature fairly light but still mostly legible, otherwise very good condition.
During his tenure as vice president from 1897 to 1899, Hobart’s wife frequently performed the duties of First Lady as Ida Saxton McKinley suffered from epilepsy. Such was not the case here, however, as both Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Garret joined their husbands on the dais. One of the McKinleys' friends and the president’s closest confidants and advisers at a time when the vice president held virtually no real authority, Hobart died of heart failure in 1899. A highly unusual portrait—the first of its kind that we have seen!
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