American: 1860s-1870s. 2 ⅜ x 3 ½ inches, uncased. An interesting image of two men in a studio setting, examining a paper. The staged nature and the attire suggest that this was an occupational staged photograph. It is unusual to see an interracial duo of train workers, and we can...
Newburgh: Abel A. Peck, 1860s. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ albumen print on larger mount. A carte-de-visite copy of a folk art painting probably painted c. 1820s-1830s. William Seymore (1786-1846) was a Methodist minister in Bellvale, New York. Edward Ruttenber and L.H. Clark, in their 1881 History of Orange County...
American: 1860s. N.p., c. 1860s. 4 ¾ x 3 ½ inches. A wonderful image in a very uncommon large format of a boy maybe seven or eight years old, possibly a drummer boy, showing a level of intimacy and warmth not usually found in portraits of the period. The obstacles...
New York: 1964. Thirteen gelatin silver prints on 8 x 10 paper, with images roughly 9 ½ x 6 ½, and two contact sheets printed full bleed. A scarce collection of photographs done for Playboy by the photographer Jerry Yulsman, a freelance novelist and photographer best known for his portraits...
Dakota Territory: 1883. An uncredited photograph taken by F. Jay Haynes. Haynes was the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Yellowstone National Park. Haynes took a series of pictures of the Crow in 1883, including this picture of Ashishishe. The picture was likely taken at the last...
Wyoming: 1903. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints, most photographs roughly 4 ½ by 6 ¾ inches, with sizes varying somewhat. With handwritten notations on versos in Buffum’s hand. A series of photographs taken by the range manager Bert C. Buffum during a street parade in Sheridan, Wyoming, in October of...
American: 1870s-1880s. 3 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. An uncommon early image of an Asian immigrant posed in front of a bakery. We find no record of a Blott St. or building besides the Blott block of Albion, New York, but the architecture and street numbers do not match the...
Bermuda: 1918. Oblong 8vo, wraps, with 47 original gelatin silver photographs glued to an equal number of pages in two albums, each photo with short description typed on a slip of paper affixed beneath or beside the image. Images measure 4 ¼ x 2 ⅜ inches or reverse, albums are...
Massachusetts: 1860s. 9 x 6 inches. Polished calf decorative covers. Nineteen pages, with 55 Carte-de-Visite portraits. A carte-de-visite portrait album kept by Billings during the Civil War. Notation before index reads: “This album was sent me, at my order, from Philadelphia and was received while our army lay at Brandy...
Harpers Ferry: 1860s. First Edition. The 22nd Regiment, still in existence, was organized in April, 1861. A very good example.
1890s. 9 ½ x 7 inch photographs on 11 x 13 mounts. The first photograph captures a bearded man atop a stump, peering in the forest, with sunlight pouring through a stand of redwoods. The second shows redwood rounds loaded on a train car, with “Exelsior Redwood Co. Eureka Cal.”...
New York? 1860s. An unusual image of a Zouave soldier in an outdoor setting, holding a horse. During the Civil War, roughly 95 Zouave regiments formed, adopting the names, uni-forms and sometimes fighting styles of the North African Zouave brigades. The bulk - about 70 of the regiments - fought...
American: 1860s. [Women][Civil War] A Pair of Tintypes of Civil War Soldiers in Federal Uniforms, Possibly Women American, c. 1860s. Quarter plate tintypes, first measuring 2 ½ x 3 inches, second 2 ¼ by 3 ⅜ inches, both cased. Though it is known that many women - perhaps...
1860s. A striking photograph, featured on page 89 of David Deitcher’s Dear Friends: Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918. “Romantic friendship between American men acquired a different kind of social prestige and meaning within the Civil War. No sooner did young recruits leave the shelter and ties of home and family.....
Havana: R. Testar, 1890s. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount, image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor, likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early...
N.p. 1924. Glossy gelatin silver print, 1924. 7 ½ x 6 inches. Signed by Curtis. Curtis, EdwardAn Owens Valley Mono. Glossy gelatin silver print, 1924. 7 ½ x 6 inches. Signed by Curtis. By the time Edward Curtis began photographing Native Americans in California in 1916, the populations had dwindled...
Fremont, Nebraska: Arundel C. Hull, 1889. 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches on larger mounts. With thirteen credited to Hull on mounts. A very scarce collection of images from the southern part of the Black Hills during the pre-statehood period. Sioux and Cheyenne had long frequented the area, particularly for...
California: 1909. Silver gelatin print mounted to board, 13 ¾ x 8 ½ inches. An uncommon image of the two naturalists relaxing at the base of a redwood on the trail to Nevada Falls during a stay in Yosemite in 1909. A famous excursion, documented in Our Friend John Burroughs...
Ohio: 1887-1888. Albumen photographs measuring 7 ¾ by 4 ½ inches on larger mounts. The Miami Powder Company was founded in 1855 by Joseph W. King and produced Gunpowder until 1925. Its headquarters were on the Little Miami River, Ohio, in a company town known as Goes Station, and the...
Reading: Circa 1900. Oblong 8vo, black cloth covered boards. With 101 prints, 70 on silver and 31 on printing out paper. Each picture captioned. The Reading Crane and Hoist Company, later Roeper Hoist and Crane Works, installed cranes throughout the Northeast, many of which are pictured here. Many pictures show...
Vermont? 1870s-1880s. Albumen photograph. 15 ½ x 10 inches on a 19 x 14 inch cardstock mount. A rare 19th century view of an insane asylum. The Vermont Asylum for the Insane, which later became the Brattleboro Retreat, was founded based on Quaker principles of moral treatment. The founder, Anna...
Nashua: J. Riley, 1880s-1890s. Albumen photograph, 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. A portrait of seven women holding weaving shuttles, most likely mill workers in Nashua. Two large mills, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Jackson Manufacturing Company, were active during this period, though we cannot confirm if...
New York: Obermuller and Son, 1905. Silver gelatin print, 3 ¾ x 5 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Marie Bayrooty was the only female member of the Bayrooty Brothers Oriental Troupe, who performed on the Barnum and Bailey Circus sideshow. A famous 'whirling dervish,' - as members of the Mevlevi...
Holdenville: 1900. 2 3/4 x 2 inches on larger mount. A striking image of two men, one of Native American descent, taken in Holdenville, Indian Territory sometime after the town’s incorporation in 1898. The town began as a settlement for workers on the The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, which...
New York: Geo. P. Hall and Sons, 1900. Mammoth silver print measuring 16 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (sight), matted to 24 x 20 ¼ inches. A scarce view of the South Street docks in lower Manhattan c. 1900, showing the Fulton Street Ferry. The Fulton Street Ferry connected Manhattan’s...