![Item #List1403 “Old Sod” [Carte-de-Visite of a Stoneware Folk Art Sculpture]....](/pictures/thumb/List1403.jpg?v=1646926271)
Cincinnati: J.P. Ball's Photographic Gallery, 1864. Carte-de-visite photograph on larger mount. Writing on verso in ink reads “No. 2. Oct 19/64 / Old Sod.” Some light toning to recto, near fine overall, quite well preserved. An uncommon folk art form, captured on film by the African-American photographer James Presley Ball.....
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.....
Reading: New York Gallery, c. 1880. Cabinet card measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches on larger mount, overall fine. An unusual cabinet card showing men together toasting, with an African-American subject in the foreground wearing medals on his jacket likely collected at GAR reunions. The men look directly at the.....
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.....
New Haven: William Notman Company, 1872. Albumen photographs measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mounts, with the William Notman company information on versos. Near fine condition with some slight fading at images at margins, otherwise fine, quite well preserved. A fine trio of cabinet cards showing the African-American.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Lima: 1860s-1870s. Albumen photographs measuring 2 x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some slight fading, a few spots to one image including one with loss, about very good overall. A striking pair of early carte-de-visite portraits of Peruvian women from the Courret studios at 197 Calle de la Union.....
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.....
Glenwood Springs, Colorado: Dennis, 1880s-1890s. Albumen photograph, 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches on larger mount. An uncommon cabinet card lampooning the plight of the solitary miner through a series of drawings. The drawings show a man setting out to strike it rich before burying himself in a hole, from.....
Mostly New England: Various Photographers, 1880s-1890s. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings, showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos, violins, trumpets, drum, and tubas. Varying wear, but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Originally from Lawrenceville, New York, the Shepard.....
New Orleans: Various Photographers, 1860s-1870s. Twenty-four cartes-de-Visite and three ninth-plate tintypes, all bearing New Orleans photographers’ marks to versos. Very good to fine. A curated group of images of New Orleans subjects, with an emphasis on women, children and religious imagery, including one uncommon image of a rosary and another.....
Oberlin: c. 1868. Albumen photographs, 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs, other image with excellent contrast, near fine condition overall. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies’ Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s, taken at.....