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GROVER  CLEVELAND
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A GIANT SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF GROVER CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET

 

GROVER CLEVELAND (1837-1908).  Cleveland was the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth Presidents. 

 

PS. 22” x 17”. No date [circa 1885]. No place [likely Washington].  An oversized photograph of Grover Cleveland and his first administration cabinet, signed by all of them; the image is autographed by Grover Cleveland, Postmaster General Wm F. Vilas, Secretary of State T.F. Bayard, Secretary of the Navy W.C. Whitney, Secretary of War Wm C. Endicott, Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Manning, Attorney General A.H. Garland and Secretary of the Interior L.Q.C. Lamar.  The image was taken in 1885 by the Washington, D.C. studio of Prince & Cudlip, run by George Prince and Charles S. Cudlip.  There are lighter portions in the center vertical section and the top margin, but the details of the foreground and background are there.  There is some damage to the portion near Cleveland’s autograph, moving upwards towards his feet; there are two cracks that look like a shark fin that starts in the middle of Grover and extends to Cleveland’s left shin.  There is also a vertical crack in the upper right corner that only affects the background of the picture.  Such large Presidential cabinet signed photographs are difficult to find; a slightly larger Grover Cleveland photograph signed by him and his first cabinet sold at Christie’s in 2002 for $5,500.  The giant photograph is framed to an overall size of 32.5” by 25.5” and is housed in an antique wooden frame.  A truly scarce Presidential signed photograph.