Why don't you try Swann Gallery or Sotherbys concerning the restoration.
They will know first class professionals who specialize in the type of
restoration your print requires.

I don't know much about these prints except they were a fashion in the late
19th and early 20th centuries.  Engravers would do them as much as a
demonstration of their technical prowess as exemplars of art.  The one you
have lists what the consciousness of 1880 considered its paragons.

You can see this motif in the turn of the century (19th) series -- from
memory called A History of the Civil War -- which displays Matthew Brady's
images.

-- Stephan






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on 12/16/01 1:32 PM, Madaline Preston at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I have purchased a print published by W. Pate 16 Burling Slip
> NY....entitled "Key to the Union."
> There are 23 sketches of the faces of such people as Hon. Jas. McDowell of
> VA., Maj. Gen Winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln, Hon. Henry Clay of KY. as
> well as men from Ohio, IN, DE, MI.
> 
> I am interested as to why this print was generated and by whom.  It could
> also use some restoration to prevent further deterioration and I could use
> a resource for a restorer.
> 
> In the 1880 census of Brooklyn a Wm. Pate is listed as importer and
> publisher of engravings.
> I have learned that William Pate probably immigrated to the US by 1845.
> Any further info would be greatly appreciated.
> Mitzie
> 
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