November 22, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Three
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RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, GEORGIA HISTORICAL PRINT, lithograph on paper, titled "BISHOP PIERCE AND HIS FATHER" above facsimile signatures and life information. Macon, GA: J. W. Burke & Co. Publishers. Mounted in two parts (the image and the lower margin) within plate marks on a sheet having an unidentified "HPS" within an oval blindstamp with other lettering above and below. Possibly a proof for an unissued print. Accompanied by a 2008 letter from State of Georgia Senior Archivist Dale Couch stating that the State Archives does not have this print in its holdings and that he was unable to locate another example. Circa 1870. 18" x 11 1/2" print, 27 1/2" x 18" OA.
Catalogue Note: John William Burke (1826-1897), a Methodist preacher, moved to Macon in 1858 where he managed the Methodist Book Repository. Previously, he had been living in Athens, Georgia where he had been trained as a printer. In 1863 he joined Samuel Boykin who was a publisher and magazine editor in his own right, to establish Burke, Boykin & Co. It was active into 1864 when the business was destroyed in the Civil War. After the War it was reorganized as J. W. Burke & Co. This firm was a leading Southern publisher of newspapers, magazines, and books into the 20th century.
Bishop George F. Pierce (1811-1884) was born in Greene Co., GA. He followed his father, Dr. Lovick Pierce (1785-1804), into the Methodist ministry in 1830. In 1845, he helped organize the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was elected Bishop in 1854, traveling from coast to coast in support of his conference. He also shared his father's passion for education, and specifically, advancing women's education - after eight years in the ministry, he was elected the first President of the Georgia Female College in Macon (now Wesleyan College), the first four-year college in the world chartered to offer undergraduate education exclusively to women. In 1848, he became the President of Emory College (later, University), its first President to have been educated in Georgia. Pierce served as President of Emory until his election as a Bishop in 1854.
He was first assigned twenty-two preaching stations on the Oconee Circuit, later he served pastorates in Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, and Columbus. He is said to have preached ten thousand times and was without peer as an orator.
Very good visual condition with some conservation in the upper left corner. Possibly originally mounted on a sheet as made, possibly trimmed and mounted later.
From a Georgia private collection.
Brunk Auctions, 2/8/2020, lot 1205.
Ex-Charleston private collection.
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