James FiskJr. Clipped Signature, CDVs, and Other Ephemera
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Lot of nine items related to James Fisk, Jr., the American stock broker and corporate executive, featuring Fisk's clipped autograph; four cdv photographs, including two portraits of Fisk, one in uniform with Howell's Broadway, NY imprint, and the other in civilian clothing with Geo. Stinson & Co.'s Portland, ME imprint, an image of Edward S. Stokes, Fisk's business associate, and one portrait of Josephine Mansfield Lawler, a showgirl with whom both Fisk and Stokes had an affair; an issue of Harper's Weekly, Vol. XVI, No. 786, January 20, 1872, 16pp, numbered, featuring a large, front-page portrait of Fisk as well as a detailed account of his life and death, 11 x 16.5 in.; excerpts from an illustrated newspaper entitled Life, Career and Assassination of James Fisk, Jr., 6pp, unnumbered, which covers various aspects of Fisk's scandalous life and death, 10 x 16 in.; a book by Robert H. Fuller. Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr. New York (NY): The MacMillan Company, 1928. 8vo, green cloth boards with dustjacket, 566pp; and a chromolithograph depicting James Fisk being shot by Edward Stokes, with a brief biography of Fisk's life printed on verso, 4.75 x 6.25 in. Fisk (1834-1872) was a shrewd 19th century financier who was notorious for participating in wild, often questionable investments in the stock market. As a result
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