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Alan Palazon

Rare signed photos of former US Presidents fetch a pretty penny at auction

Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover. .

A trove of historic photographs depicting former US Presidents went to auction over the weekend, selling for staggering sums. What made the images so valuable wasn’t just their famous subjects, but the fact that each photo had been personally signed by its subject.

The auction, held at Swann Galleries in New York on May 07, featured a “remarkable” collection of 126 original photographs depicting some of the most influential US Presidents, along with other historically important figures from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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