New York: 1910-1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. Walter Baker was a founder of the Colored Photographers Association and owned and operated a studio and school on Lenox Avenue at 133rd Street in New York in.....
London: 1890s. Small cabinet card photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ on larger mount. Slight fading, excellent condition. A portrait of Ambrose Clairmont of Bridgetown, Barbados, taken in London at the J.L. Huntly studio in Highbury. Clairmonte was a tailor and graduate of Harrison College in Bridgetown, Barbados. His.....
Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson, 1890s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches on larger mount. Heavy wear to mount, some staining to margin of photograph, wear and creases and a closed tear to mat, fair to good overall. An incredible image of a young African-American man, finely dressed.....
Pocahantas: P.W. Poff, 1860s-1870s. Albumen carte de visite photographs measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on slightly larger mounts. Some fading to some images, one in fine condition, good to very good overall. A series of images taken by P.W. Poff, who also operated a studio at Bluefield, West.....
Pennsylvania and France: 1890s-1910s. Five Cabinet Card Photographs and one Mounted Photograph taken at the L. Vasseur Studio in Paris. Generally fine condition, one cabinet card with chips to mount. A small but very compelling group of images recovered from a family collection, documenting an African-American family from Pennsylvania. Five.....
New York City: Oscar Muller Mercantile Photograph company, likely late 1800s. Photograph measuring 4 ¾ x 7 inches mounted on 5 x 8 inch cardstock. A photograph of ten workers, at least two of whom are African-American, posing outside their place of business. The men’s location is unknown, as is.....
Indian Territory, Missouri, and Kansas: Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and other studios, c. 1898–1930. Fourteen cabinet cards of various sizes, measuring 7 x 8 ½ inches and smaller, and two real photo postcards. Photos with wear; generally excellent. Cards with significant wear and some missing corners; very good minus. Sixteen.....
Hull and Nuneaton: W. J. Wellsted & Son, c. 1873–1874. Carte de visite portrait measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen photograph on original mount with Wellsted’s printed royal arms and “By Special Invitation” crest, advertising the firm as “Photographers of the Prince & Princess of Wales,” with addresses at.....
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.....
Tama County: J.L. Hudson, 1860s. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches on larger mount. Semi-legible ID on lower portion of image in pencil, some normal wear, very good overall. An early and interesting image of Meskwaki subjects seated in a studio setting, likely taken in the 1860s.....
Nagasaki: Ikuta, 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount, with the imprint of Ikuta, Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading, near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and.....
Colorado: 1183-1884. Albumen photographs measuring 7 ½ x 4 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some chips to mounts, occasional foxing and spotting, good to very good overall with very good contrast. Three early photographs of Colorado taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1880s, taken shortly after the Denver.....
California: 1892. Albumen photograph on board, very good contrast, mount near fine with minimal wear. A photograph of Main St. in San Andreas in 1892, showing banners for the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson and the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid hanging above.....
California: Higgins & Hunt, c. 1870s. Carte de visite measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. A portrait of a well-dressed young woman taken by Higgins & Hunt, a Californian photography studio active at least in the 1870s. No date or location information is given, but newspapers from the time indicate.....
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American West: 1880s-1890s. Cabinet Card measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Identification on ink verso. Some fading, very good. A photograph of a Chinese man on horseback in western attire, possibly taken in Oregon or California in the 1890s. A search of genealogical and newspaper records yield.....
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.....
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.....
Liberty Center, Ohio: Chas. Hatcher, n.d., likely 1890s. Cabinet card photograph measuring approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Photographer’s imprint on mount: “Chas. Hatcher, Liberty Center, O.”. A cabinet card photograph of an unidentified blind or visually impaired musical troupe, photographed in Liberty Center, Ohio. The group is posed.....
N.p. c. 1860s–1870s. Carte-de-visite novelty card. Albumen print illustration mounted on standard CDV card, approximately 2.5 x 4 inches. A macabre humorous novelty carte-de-visite showing a coffin containing the caricatured head of a deceased man beneath the caption “THIS POOR MAN WAS TALKED TO DEATH.” The image parodies the visual.....
New York: Fredericks’ Knickerbocker Family Portrait Gallery, n.d., likely late 1880s. Cabinet card photograph measuring approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Photograph shows two girls in traditional Alsatian dress standing on either side of a large embroidered banner for the Société Colmarienne of New York, with shield, crossed tools.....
Tennessee? 1870s. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Some foxing, very good overall, signed by Knabe as “Proff Knabe” on recto. Gustav Knabe was born in Leipzig and formally educated in music in Germany before emigrating to the United States and serving as a......
St. Louis: Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross, 1880s. Cabinet card photographs measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mounts. Fine condition. The German-American duo of Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross spent several decades photographing the wealthy families on St. Louis’s south side in the late nineteenth century, with Gross.....
Illinois, Iowa, and Sweden: multiple studios, c. 1860s–1880s. Carte-de-visite album containing forty-five photographs, a mix of CDVs and tintypes. In the mid-19th century, social, religious, and economic conditions in Sweden led to an outpouring of immigrants to the US, with many going to the midwest. One locus of Swedish immigration.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: n.d., likely 1870s–1880s. Carte de visite measuring approximately 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen portrait of an Indian man wearing a turban and white garment, mounted on photographer’s card. Printed verso headed “India Missionary Photographs,” advertising copies of “this and other India photographs, printed by first-class artists in.....
Menomonie, Wisconsin: 1897–1898. Cabinet card; photo measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. A photograph taken by Milton F. Swant of Menomonie, Wisconsin, showing a group of seven young ladies, at least one of whom is likely Indigenous. The photo is.....