^Lot 472 Isaac I. Stevens

First Governor of the Washington Territory (1818–1862), United States Congressman, and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly. He was appointed posthumously to the grade of major general of volunteers and was also involved with the early development and land acquisition for the Northern Pacific Railway—the main line which later opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. Rare bust portrait of Stevens on a 6.5 x 8.75 sheet of sensitized paper made from the collodian negative, circa 1857, signed under the image in black ink, “Isaac I. Stevens,” with “Washn Terr’y,” in another hand under his signature. Hair and facial features have been retouched and page is affixed to a slightly larger sheet. Aforementioned retouching and scattered soiling, otherwise fine condition.