Philadelphia: 1799. 4 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (121 x 212 mm). Scattered spotting, light to moderate horizontal center crease. In frame with modern bust portrait of Allen. An incidental but highly suggestive document from the life of Richard Allen, whom historian Richard Newman has argued should be recognized as.....
Most Latin America: 1809-1838. Mostly Latin America, 1809 - 1838. Over 150 pieces, comprising over 280 pages, .5 linear feet. The Massachusetts merchant Captain Eliphalet Smith Jr. (1780-1838) was a merchant trading primarily in Latin America during the Revolutionary Period. Described by the Chilean historian Diego Barros Arana as “an.....
Nome: Lomen Brothers, 1914. Silver gelatin print, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Women’s baseball evolved alongside men’s leagues beginning in the 1860s, with many teams and leagues appearing throughout the following decades, often playing indoors and often unrecorded in the annals of baseball history. Women’s baseball was particularly popular.....
Most Cuba or Jacksonville: 1898-1900. Silver gelatin or albumen photographs, various sizes ranging from 3 x 3 to 6 x 8, most captioned to verso. With handwritten manuscript, four leaves, discussing various diseases. The Spanish-American War was the first war in which nurses formed their own dedicated units, as well.....
California and Oregon: 1926-1954. Oblong 8vo, dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs, most measuring 3 x 5, with some smaller. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish, hike, and camp their way through some of the great Western parks.....
Various Places: 1920s. Oblong folio, cloth over cardstock, 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards, most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion, with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for.....
San Francisco: LPIU, 1966. Poster on vellum paper after a photograph by Edmund Shea. 14 x 20 inches, Likely first printing, with the LPIU Union logo and "72" at bottom left corner. Lenny Bruce, himself a product of the Jazz era, was highly influential for many of the new left.....
Los Angeles: 1950s. Silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches. With Morehead’s marks to verso. A scarce and perhaps unrecorded image of Charlie Parker playing table tennis, likely taken in Los Angeles, by the pioneering Los Angeles-based African-American photographer Howard Morehead. Morehead, originally from Topeka, Kansas, served as member of.....
Mostly Los Angeles: 1970s. Quarto, laminated photographic cloth album, 10 x 11 inches, 80 photographs and assorted ephemera, most photographs 8 x 10 inches. Mostly Los Angeles, 1970s-early 1980s. Aeros Theda was a Michigan-born formally-trained musician living in California in the 1970s, where she played in several fusion/rock/jazz.....
Mexico: 1833. First Edition. Mexico: May 23, 1833. Letter and chart on watermarked single folio sheets, approx. 13 x 16-½ inches, letter: [3] pp.; chart: [2] pp.;. Rare first-hand documentation of the growing trade tensions that eventually led to the French-Mexican “Pastry War” of 1838. Consul Hersant’s gossipy report surveys.....
Mexico: Mexican National Packing Co., 1908. First Edition. Oblong folio, cloth, 12 x 7 inches. With twenty-five silver gelatin photographs affixed to album leaves, each measuring 6 ¾ x 5 inches. John Wesley De Kay was an American businessman, playwright and eccentric socialite who, using funds amassed as a teenage.....
Humboldt and Eureka Counties: 1951-1960. Oblong quarto, cream colored cloth boards, 10 ¼ x 13 ¼ inches. Contains 160 photographs, measuring from 2 x 3 to 2 x 5 inches. Most photos identified with captions. As engaging a photographic document of mid-century forestry as one is likely to find, following.....
Mostly California: Various Photographers, 1860s-1880s. First Edition. Albumen cartes-de-visite, generally 2 3⁄4 x 3 3⁄4 inches on larger mounts. The Chinese-American communities that existed prior to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 were mostly on the West Coast, with a few others scattered throughout the country. This collection, assembled over.....
Vermillion: E. Frank Peterson, 1902. 8vo, wraps, with lithograph map printed in red and black, 25 ½ x 32 inches. The Dawes Act of 1889, which greatly reduced the amount of land held in Indian reservations, was passed with two goals in mind: to encourage American Indian assimilation to the.....
Rushville: J.E. Meddaugh, 1890. Albumen cabinet card photograph, 6 ⅛ x 4 ⅜ inches on larger mount. In the period prior to the Wounded Knee Massacre, many white members of the media visited the areas surrounding the Pine Ridge Reservation to witness the Ghost Dance and capitalize on any ensuing.....
Montana: 1920s. Sixty-three postcards measuring 4 x 6 inches, mixed media images some with graphite and watercolor over photographic exposures. Typewritten captions to versos. Christian F. Schuster was a lumber man, boy scout and amateur archaeologist from Holyoke, Massachusetts who spent a series of seventeen summers living with the Piegan.....
Council Grove: 1866-1870. Albumen photographs, 3 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches on slightly larger mounts, photographer’s logo to verso. The Kaw people - also known as Kanza or Kansa - were located on the Neosho Reservation near Council Grove from 1847-1873 before white pressure forced them to relocate to Indian.....
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.....
Montana Territory: 1880s. Albumen photographs measuring from 8 x 5 ½ to 8 ½ x 6 ½ on 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch mounts. Fort Assiniboine was located in present-day north-central Montana, and was notable during the Indian Wars period for several reasons: for housing the 10th Cavalry Buffalo.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. 1880s-1890s. Mounted albumen photograph on mount, 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches on larger mount. A striking portrait of an American Indian student in western dress, most likely a student at an American Indian boarding school or Indian Residential School, as they were also known. Verso reads, “J.H.C. /.....