New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-24
PICTURES OF TIE PRESIDENT.

IMMENSE SALES OF ENGRAvINGs. PHOTOGRAPHS
AND IITHoGRAPHs-wuAr DEALERS AND MANU-
FACTURERs THE DEMAND.
There has been an astonishingly large sale
of photographs Autographs and engrayngs OF Fresoeh
Garfield during the past few days ththoSr"Pners anu
have been crowded with orders ana cou
PEELED work night and day. ana nave Deen uhaoie 10
supply the demand. Dealers say that the demand eN
ceeds that President Lincons portrait aier he was
shot have echoed with the cries OF hundreds
of men and boys selling the cheaper class of pictures
Many have bought the large Autographs in order to
frame and place them, draped in black in their
street windows Poor persons have bought large mum
OF pictures of the dead Chief Magistrate Tuckmen
and rougiihauded laborers might seen wrapping a
portrait tenderly in paper and putting it in
inside pocket to keep 1t from being
soed. The Presidents noble features have
also become fully as familiar in the homes OF the
wealthy Dealers have been unable 70 supply the de
mand for fine engravings and the large panel and
boudoir photographs
large dealer In photographs in Nassaust said a
TRIBUNE reporter Wednesday: 1--WE have sold between
two and three thousand of the cheap copied photographs
of the President during the last few days and cannot
supply the demand adeby the sidewalk dealers though
we running all the possible We sell them
at 50 hundred and the pedlers sell them at Ave cents
apiece. Photographs of Mrs Garfield very
They all have TO be copied from the pictures made by
Cleveland artist There Is much call yet for Presi
dent Arthurs portrait As for Guteau people look at
his face and say Hang him. but they won't buy IT, 30
gardus has the finest portraits OF Garfield hut he told
to-day that he could not let me have till Friday. He
has doubled the number of cameras In his gallery Good
Imperial cards sell at 25 and boudor portraits
rs Larger panel pictures sell for much So
The photographers mount the pictures at night but
have print in the daytime"
George f. Perne's store in Nassa-st. crowded all
day with the sidewalk dealers, who ga
clamorous for pictures that took three four clerks
to keep them the proper side of the Orders
were being taken for pictures by the hundred and
thousand in advance, the supply had out. The
two days The house publishes two engravings and one
Autograph of President Garfield, besides fine engrav
Autographs OF President and Mrs Garfield have also
been sent from Boston, Two steam presses, with
wednesday night. besides two plate presses
IN TINS place. orders were being re,
they cond not he filed The demand Was said to- exceed
that for President Lincoln's pictures in 1865.
salesman in Currer & ves's store said that he had
the importantly Of the sidewalk spectators tho
graphs, who crowded the store in quest of supply
soon publish iith"grapG Of the death- BED
scene All the photographic used i'll the
last Presidential campaign have resurrected.
A photograph dealer In Broadway said that people
kept running in to get pictures of the dead President
row for his death sympathy for his family Al have
had to keep hoy runuing said he to keep up the
supply, have got out of the Bogardus portrait, but
SarOny's very good, is also a profile by Pach
President Arthars picture has sold well ID viii
later Many have called for Mrs Garheld's. but cannot
A member of the house Of r. IL II r. Anthony SAID
that they had received heavy orders from all
OF imperial cards, and had orders for 600 hand.
great number of Saronys large panel portraits were
Cleveland phOtosra pher said that he could ben
supply the demand FOR Mrs Garfelds photograph BO
enough for the dealers. put up the price and only
tailed them