Rare CDV of Kit Carson and Edwin Perrin Children in literature

Rare CDV of Kit Carson and Edwin Perrin Children in literature(Wild West) RARE CDV OF KIT CARSON AND EDWIN PERRIN. New York: E. & H. T. Anthony, [1862]. 4" x 2 3 8". EXCEEDINGLY RARE carte de visite, or CDV, of Kit Carson, at left in his Army frock coat and Edwin Perrin, seated with cane; taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico in January 1862. At the time of this photo, Carson was a colonel in the Union Army and the leader of the 1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. Perrin was a government expediter, sent to New Mexico

Textile primers of this era were manufactured as durable toys and routinely subjected to heavy laundering

New York: Charles E

the text block is no longer attached to the covers

Original publisher's string bound pictorial paper wrappers with titles and woodcut printed in black on a yellow background to front wrapper

and fine throughout

National Art Library

" additional articles include: "Attack on Chicago Office

1869 in Which She References "My Dear Husband" and Her Son "Taddie

plus 18 pp

Cupples & Leon introduced their "All About Gift Box" line in 1923

While widely distributed during the late 1930s as standard instructional primers across Germany

numbering more than seventy in all