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.....
Boston: c. 1874. Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ inches, on original mount with photographer’s mark to verso. Joshua Bowen Smith was a Boston-based abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad, who also owned his own catering company. Born in Philadelphia to a British father and mother of.....
Fort Ethan Allen: 1910. Gelatin silver print mounted to board, 16 ¼ x 14 ½ inches. The 10th Cavalry was one of the original “Buffalo Soldier” regiments of the post-Civil War segregated U.S. Army, first seeing action in the Indian Wars. Their band is shown here most likely during their.....
Carlisle: J.N. Choate, 1880-1885. Albumen cabinet card, 8 x 4 ⅞ inches on slightly larger mount. Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in 1879, was one of the most influential institutions of its type during its existence from 1879 to 1919. The purpose of the school - unlike some predecessors such.....
New York, et al. 1921-1934. Large heavy folio, 12 x 14 inches. 81 leaves, cloth covers with string-through binding. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Leonidas Westervelt was a New York-based playwright and theater historian who also had an interest in archaeology. This scrapbook documents his digs in the New.....
Gelatin silver print, 6 x 8.25 inches, on 8 x 10 inch mount. A striking portrait of a young part-Choctaw American Indian man in Durant, Indian Territory. The verso reads “Mr. Frank Love / Halfbreed Choctaw / Durant, IT.” Court records show that Frank Love’s father, Willis.....
Montana or Wyoming: 1900-1910. Silver gelatin photographs on thick paper mounts, photographs measuring appx. 4 x 5 inches, mounts 8 x 10. A series of photographs of Crow, taken circa 1900-1905 by an unknown photographer, possibly acquired at a Wyoming street festival. The images bear some resemblance to the work.....
Oraibi: 1898. Platinum print, 6 ¼ x 8 14 inches on 9 ¼ x 11 ½ inch sheet, titled and dated in the margin in ink. The Illinois-born photographer Adam Clark Vroman moved to California in 1892 hoping that the dry climate would provide relief for his tuberculosis. He set.....
Zuni Pueblo / Washington: 1882-1883. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 9 ¼ on 8 x 10 inch mount. Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnologist and anthropologist who helped pioneer the practice of participant observation by living among Zuni in New Mexico. He joined James Stevenson’s anthropological expedition to New Mexico.....
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.....
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.....
Massachusetts: 1969. Silver gelatin photographs, some mounted, various sizes, most around 6x8 inches. Some wear and creases to mounts, photographs range from good to fine with fine contrast, some photos with noticeable flaws. Very good overall. An evocative collection of photographs of several important musicians taken in Boston in 1969.....
Philadelphia: 1865. Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, measuring 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches, with “D.B. Bowser / Artist / No. 481 North 4th St. / Philadelphia” on verso, suggesting the photograph was used by Bowser as a business card or advertisement. Fading and slight toning to verso, photograph nearly fine with.....
Harpers Ferry: 1860s. First Edition. The 22nd Regiment, still in existence, was organized in April, 1861. A very good example.
V.P. 1960s-1970s. Fifty-one photographs, most measuring 3.5 x 5 inches, in hard plastic sleeves, as found. From the estate of Drew Bundini Brown. Generally fine condition with some normal fading to images, with subject identification stickers on sleeves. Drew ‘Bundini’ Brown worked as Muhammad Ali’s cornerman from 1963 onward, after.....
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.”.....
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Sly Park: 1882. Albumen photograph on album leaf, 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches, on larger mount. An uncommon early image from Sly Park, in El Dorado County, of several men chopping wood, with one drinking from a bottle and holding a rifle. A dog looks on. Good condition with.....
New York: 1940s-1950s. Three photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches, menu measuring 10 x 3 3/4. Cab Calloway and his band began performing at the Cotton Club in 1931, enjoying an initial three year stint with many sporadic returns in the subsequent decades. Calloway’s manager, Irving Mills, played a large.....
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.....
Virginia City: Sutterley and Co., 1864-1867. Albumen photograph on mount, 4 x 2 ½ inches. Pauline Cushman was an actress and one of the most successful spies for the Union Army. She ingratiated herself with the Confederate army by toasting Jefferson Davis after one of her performances. She was eventually.....
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.....
New York: 1963. When construction began on Brooklyn’s Downstate Medical Center in 1963, the construction contracts were mostly awarded to unions that did not include African-American workers. In response, C.O.R.E., the Black Ministers’ Association and others coordinated a series of demonstrations in protest. Over a period of several weeks, many.....
Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1899. Oblong quarto, green cloth, 11 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches with 98 photographs. Frances Coulter, the daughter of a department store magnate in turn-of-the-century Los Angeles, was a socialite who regularly made the society pages of Los Angeles newspapers. The collection of photographs here -.....