$1,080
Quarter-plate Daguerreotype of a Painting of the Paddlewheeler Meneman Sanford, possibly painted by James Bard, enhanced with red, white, and blue paint, in an embossed pressed leather/paper case, (tarnish, dust). Note: The Meneman Sanford was launched in 1854 as a New England coastal steamship, later becoming a vessel transporting Union soldiers. In December 1862, she sank after hitting a reef off Key Largo, Florida, while carrying 800 Union soldiers of the 156th New York Volunteers, as part of a flotilla in the Banks Expedition en route to New Orleans. No one died in the grounding, but a large amount of gear needed for the Union expedition up the Mississippi River was lost. Her pilot, Captain A.W. Richardson, was placed under arrest for criminal negligence and sent to Key West under guard as he was thought to have been a southern sympathizer executing an act of sabotage.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-28
