[PHOTOGRAPH AND BUSINESS CARD]

Edward R. Rivers / Shipping and Commission Merchant, / Mobile, Ala. / Particular Attention Given to the Sale of / Lime, Hay, & All Other Easter Produce / Also, to procuring freight for vessels [complete text]

Mobile, AL: The merchant, nd [ca. 1860s]. Business card, 2 1/8 x 3 ½ inches, several styles and sizes of type, glazed surface (spotted). [Mounted verso through corner slots:] Tintype portrait of Rivers, 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 inches. Rivers is listed as a commission merchant in the 1859 Farrow Mobile city directory and as a Mobile resident in an 1869 directory. An uncommon combination for a Civil War-era business card. Item #70327

Price: $375.00