American: 1860s. Tintype in case, 3 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches. A quarter plate tintype of a women’s sewing circle, probably circa 1860s. Three women hold patterns while one sews. Ante-bellum sewing circles were often anti-slavery or missionary in nature, though we can find no details here that offer clues...
Lawrence: 1880. Albumen photograph on card stock, 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Working conditions were notoriously bad in Lawrence, one of the industrial hubs of the textile industry in the late nineteenth century after the harnessing of the Merrimack River’s water power in 1845. The city was a hub...
Tahlequah, et al. 1900. First Edition. Female seminaries - essential in the education of American women in the nineteenth century - spread westward with Euro-American settlement. The Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah was owned and operated by the Cherokee Nation until 1909, when the Oklahoma State Legislature passed a law...
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony Company, 1888. First Edition. Large 8vo, wraps, 115 pp. 7 x 10 ½ inches. Edward Anthony and his brother Henry operated the largest photographic supply company in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Edward operated a small photography practice before converting his...
Nevada and California: 1862. Various dates and formats, 1862-1896. Adolph Sutro was a Prussian-born developer and mining engineer turned populist politician and important figure in nineteenth century California and Nevada, with his largest engineering achievement being the construction of the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada. This material, from a private Dayton...
American: 1920s. Gelatin silver photograph, 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches on Cyko stock photo paper. A scarce photograph of a bootlegging operation, c. early 1920s. The photograph is printed on Cyko stock, which was used through the early 1920s. Few images of bootleggers have survived. The six men in...
Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. First Edition. The first bilingual edition of Pinckney’s Treaty of San Lorenzo, which ended the West Florida Conflict by establishing an amicable agreement between Spain and the United States for the navigation of the Mississippi River. Thomas Pinckney signed as a representative of the United States.....
New England? 1850s. First Edition. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. A charming broadside advertising the services of the itinerant photographer L.W.F. Mark of Boston and his photographic equipment. Itinerant photographers travelled through towns offering their services beginning with the invention of the daguerreotype in the late 1840s and continuing through...
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Baker & Elliot: Philadelphia, 1844. Cloth, appx. 2 ½ x 10 inches. The Philadelphia Prayer Riots, or Nativist Riots, were a series of anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 stemming from anti-Irish sentiment and driven by rumors that the new wave of immigrants were attempting to remove the bible from...
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...
Staten Island: 1927. 4to, seven letters totaling 10 pp. With five original envelopes and a postal receipt. A series of letters, sometimes confused but entertaining in nature, written by a descendant of the Francis family of Springfield, relating to Lincoln-related relics from the Simeon Francis Home, where Abraham and Mary...
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...
American: 1870s-1880s. 3 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. An uncommon early image of an Asian immigrant posed in front of a bakery, possibly in Albion, New York, where a Blott Building built in 1869 containing a bakery burned in 1914. The tintype medium and general look suggest that the picture...
Cincinnati: St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land Company, 1886. Various Formats. An unusual collection of ephemera relating to the early development of the area of the Florida Panhandle east of Pensacola, and an interesting ephemeral window into the type of land schemes that led to the population of Florida by...
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...
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...
Various Places: 1892-1894. Sammelband of thirteen reports, each with original front wrapper or wrappers bound-in; in half-calf, with gilt titles on spine. Includes: Guillouard, Louis. Rapport sur les travaux du comité départemental du Calvados. Caen: Ch. Valin, 1893. 19 pp., printed gray wrapper; Drouet, Paul. Souvenir...
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...
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...
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...
Boston: 1907. Dated November 29. 1907. A letter addressed to Mr. Arnold H.B. Heath of Boston, laying out the challenges facing the Tuskegee Institute. Washington visited Boston in late 1907, delivering a series of speeches at the centennial celebration of the life of John Greenleaf Whittier. This letter, written in...
Massachusetts: 1861. Horace Binney Sargent was the Colonel of the First Massachusetts Cavalry during the Civil War, and used his wartime experience to launch a literary career contributing war-related stories to various periodicals. This is a collection of three letters written to Sargent early in the conflict, as well as...
Cleveland: 1942. Silver prints, most 6 ½ by 9, with various editorial marks and identifiers to versos. A collection of women’s fitness press photographs taken around Cleveland in 1942, from the archives of the Cleveland News. A collection of twenty-two photographs documenting women’s fitness programs in Cleveland in 1942. The...
Omaha? 1900-1910. Silver gelatin photograph on postcard paper, 5 ⅜ x 3 ⅜ inches. A full speech from a women’s suffrage meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, written into a negative and printed as a realphoto postcard. The speech appears to be satirical in tone, though this is unclear. “We will have...
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...