Lot 1298
Governors, Senators, Members of Congress. A huge collection of approximately 600 business cards, most of them signed, by U.S. governors, senators, members of Congress, American diplomats, and some prominent businessmen. Most are 20th century; several have multiples. Among the 385 governors, who often signed on cards embossed with their state seal, or Executive Mansion cards, are: William B. Sprague (also a Civil War general), Fiorello LaGuardia, Thomas Dewey, Afred Smith, Herbert Lehman, Averell Harriman, Mario Cuomo, John Sherman, Jimmie H. Davis, Adlai Stevenson, Bruce Babbit, Edmund Brown, Harry Byrd, and Spiro Agnew. Among the group of approximately 100 senators are J. William Fulbright, Margaret Chase Smith, Eugene McCarthy, Albert Gore (Sr.), Estes Kefauver, Dan Rostenkowski, Bob Dole, and Chauncey Depew. Members of Congress include Geraldine Ferraro, Clare Boothe Luce, John Bell, Tip O'Neill, and Wilbur Mills. A group of 15 mayors includes Fernando Wood (Civil War mayor of NY), Richard Daley, and James J. Walker. Other famous names are Nobel Prize winners Ralph J. Bunche and Frank B. Kellogg, and William Randolph Hearst. Some of the older cards are toned; a few have pasting remnants on verso. Condition ranges from fair to extremely fine. Should be seen.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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