Tuskegee: 1930s. When Prentice Polk enrolled at Tuskegee Institute at the age of eighteen, he had every intention of becoming a painter. The staff at Tuskegee decided that his goals were impractical, and at the advice of the Institute’s official photographer, C.M. Battey, Polk instead decided to pursue a career.....
New York: 1964. Thirteen gelatin silver prints on 8 x 10 paper, with images roughly 9 ½ x 6 ½, and two contact sheets printed full bleed. A scarce collection of photographs done for Playboy by the photographer Jerry Yulsman, a freelance novelist and photographer best known for his portraits.....
1927-1945. Various sizes and dates. Clara Adams was a wealthy widow who took up air travel in its early days, setting records for transatlantic flights and circumnavigation as a commercial airline passenger. In doing so, she helped popularize flying as a safe and comfortable way to travel. She was friends.....
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.....
New York: UPI Roto Service, 1966. First Edition. Photocopy of a typed manuscript, 8-½ x 11 in., 12 pp., printed recto only, sl. chipping and toning at edges; together with an additional copy of the typed manuscript; a License to Use Your Head order form for Leary’s Future History book.....
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.....
Mexico: 1929. First Edition. Album assembled later. Sixty-three photographs measuring 4 x 6 inches, housed in a limp green cardstock portfolio, with photographs loosely inserted into mylar-fronted portfolio pages with captions loosely laid in. The Escobar Rebellion was the final rebellion following the Mexican Civil War of 1920. General José.....
Chadron: Northwestern Photographic Company, 1890-1891. First Edition. Prints roughly 4 ¼ x 7 inches mounted to heavy card. Most spotted and faded, surfaces soiled, a few with creases, one beginning to tear, cards worn at edges, some with small losses not affecting prints. Generally good condition overall. Many photographs of.....
Various Places: 1880s-1920s. First Edition. Various sizes and formats, ranging from large mounted studio albumen prints (9-¼ x 7-⅜ in.) to small unmounted paper prints (3 x 2 in.), including more than 60 cabinet cards (approx. 4-½ x 6-½ in.), 100 real photo postcards (approx. 3-⅜ x 5-⅜ in.), with.....
New York and Environs: 1915-1930. We find scant information on Henry Reister, a professional photographer operating throughout the New York metropolitan region in the early part of the century. His studio moved several times, from the Bronx to Bridgewater, New Jersey, then to Woodlawn, New York. This interesting and varied.....
V.p. 1890s. Oblong quarto, leatherette, heavy card stock album pages with photographs affixed. This album of photographs, assembled probably during the 1890s, is notable in three ways; for its extensive collection of notable cultural figures in the late nineteenth century including abolitionists, politicians, women’s suffrage advocates authors, etc; the inclusion.....
New York: RCA Corporation, 1937-1940. In the late 1930s, television was in its experimental phase and radio dominated the American media landscape. RCA and its NBC network directed experimental broadcasts from their studio in Radio City, broadcasting from a transmitter at the top of the Empire State Building. The first.....
Physical Culture City: 1905. First Edition. Physical Culture City, Spotswood, New Jersey, 1905 or later. Thirty-one images in total, varying sizes, most 3 x 5 inches or smaller. Bernarr Macfadden was a proponent of Physical Culture, a movement combining exercise with nutrition and ascetic living that helped give rise to.....