Photography
French Tissue Stereoview, Pretend Play, Children in Adult Situations
Paris: BK, [1860s]. Ten (10) different French tissue stereoviews of obviously posed children in adult situations. Each is numbers and captioned. Part of a larger series. The highest number is 122. Captioned in French including (translated) the hawker an arrest at the cabaret the dance the candlestick the village drum.....
Price: $350.00
Minnesota,Lake Redwood,Photo Booklet
Redwood Falls, Minnesota: The Redwood Gazette Print, 1902. A souvenir photo booklet celebrating the natural wonders of Redwood Falls, Minnesota, published by the town's local Gazette. Includes a photo portrait montage of "the committee in charge" (presumably the Gazette's committee?) followed by thirty-one (31) photos of Lake Redwood and its.....
Price: $150.00
Family Photo Album,Birthdays and Milestones,Mothers and Sons
[Cleveland, Ohio]: 1965. A family photo album created by a mother as a 20th birthday gift for her son, including eleven (11) photos of the young man growing up from infanthood to adulthood. The photos are captioned lovingly by the mother in red ink. Shows what appears to be a......
Price: $275.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Batavia,Civil War,History of New York State
Batavia, New York: 1854-1886. A photo album containing ten (10) original photographs of Batavia, New York, and environs. Captions are dated. Views include: main street (1854); a store decorated in honor of the return of Union soldiers (1865); S. Main Street (1870); a row of shops (n.d.); the "Old Arsenal".....
Price: $275.00
Souvenir Photo Books,Tourism and Travel Ephemera,History of the Photographic Book,Photography for the Masses
New York, New York: Adolph Wittemann, 1880s. A printed price list of souvenir albums for sale, organized into two categories: "Cities", and "Scenery and Resorts". Provides interesting insight into what cities and sites were most sought after by American tourists. The albums, also referred to as "souvenir viewbooks", were published.....
Price: $100.00
Amesbury Massachusetts, World War One, Local War Effort
Amesbury, Mass: Amesbury Daily News Print, 1919. The booklet was issued as a souvenir in connection with the Municipal Reception to Returned Service Men. 33 pages. It gives an overview of the involvement from the Town of Amesbury in Massachusetts during World War One. After the Forward and the General.....
Price: $110.00
Soil Conservation, Agriculture, Correspondence, History of New York
Berlin, New York: c.1920-1931. A remarkable archive of material belonging to Edward C. (b.1872) and Emily (b.1884) Henrotin, farmers active in Rensselaer County, New York, in the 1920s. Emily was an active conservationist, and one of the first women to be recognized in her field; her husband Edward was equally.....
Price: $425.00
Hand-Bell Ringers,Touring Acts
Bacup, England: R. Hammond, 1880s. A CDV-sized photograph mounted on green coated card with gold border, depicting a four-person "bell ringer" choir. The four men, sadly unidentified, stand proudly in a line with their bells on display. The different sizes of the bells create different pitches/notes for them to create.....
Price: $200.00
Education, Ephemera, Promotion
Lindsborg, KS: Bethany College, c1910. A 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" card with an image from a photograph of young women graduates in a field of daisies gathering the ephemeral flowers. The reverse has a stylized, art nouveau influenced daisy at left. The narrative describes the Bethany Campus as one.....
Price: $45.00
Baby Books, Childhood, Family Albums, WWI, Phoenix
[Phoenix, Arizona]: c.1917. The baby book of Amie (a.k.a. Amy) Lois Bivin (b.1917) a pictorial history with twenty (20) original photographs, a small 1917 calendar, and scraps of typewritten verse. The album itself was published as a bridal book, complete with a faux certificate of marriage, filled out in ink.....
Price: $150.00
Wedding and Engagement Parties,Party Favor,Bingo
United States: 1930s. A bingo card produced as either a wedding or engagement party favor. The card consists of a real photograph of the bride, with a semitransparent bingo grid on top. They are secured together with aqua and yellow curling ribbon. Measures approx. 6.75" by 4.75"
Price: $125.00
Amateur Photography,Magazines and Serials
New York, New York: Camera & Dark Room Co., American Photographic Publishing Co., 1902-1906. A partial run of "The Camera and Dark-Room", a photography magazine published monthly by the Camera & Dark Room Co. and later the American Photographic Publishing Co. for amateur photographers and technology enthusiasts. This run includes.....
Price: $1,800.00
Butter sculpture, Women's History, CDV, Steam Engine
Caroline S. Brooks, 1876. Image depicts the Dreaming Iolanthe, King, Rene's Daughter, by Henrich Herz. A study in butter by Caroline S. Brooks, daughert of Abel Shawk. The tools used were a common butter paddle, cedar sticks, broom straws, and camel's hair pencil. May have been created for the Centennial.....
Price: $100.00
Americana, Columbian Exposition, World's Fair, Midway Attractions, People of the World
Chicago: The American Engraving Co., 1893. Ten (10) of 12 vol. 20 pp viewbook; halftone images with descriptive letterpress. Attractive covers with human alphabet letters on the word Types. The volumes consisted largely of photographs accompanied by contextual and interpretive commentary. Some books exclusively devoted pages to images of Midway.....
Price: $775.00
Maine,Secondary and Prep Schools,Schools for Girls,Y.W.C.A.
Waterville, Maine: Coburn Classical Institute, 1920s. Photo-illustrated booklet promoting the Coburn Classical Institute, a preparatory school which operated from 1828 until 1970 in Waterville, Maine. Includes fourteen (14) photos of the school, its grounds and students, including its state of the art kitchen laboratory ("Twelve girls can work easily and.....
Price: $100.00
Coronado Island, Sea Hunt, Photography, Birds
[1915]. A series of 37 photographs, hand numbered on the reverse, chronicling a visit to Coronado Island off San Diego. The first image is approaching the uninhabited island followed by an image of their boat and then two young men approaching the rocks with a row boat and portaging the.....
Price: $450.00
travel and tourism, photographs, transportation
The World: Gloeckner & Newby Company, [1934-1935]. A collection of seventy-one (71) black and white photographs of a Grand World Tour that went from America to Asia, the Middle East, Northern African, and Europe. The collection is dated to circa 1934-1935 as there are several pictures of the Sky Ride.....
Price: $275.00
World's Fairs and Expositions,History of Chicago,1893 Columbian Exposition,Souvenirs
N.pl: Jones Bros., Pub. Co, 1893. A set of twenty-four (24) photo reproduction prints, housed in their original publisher's portfolio, each depicting a different view of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Issued by the Jones Bros., Pub. Co. the same year as the exposition was held, in Chicago. A nice.....
Price: $275.00
Genealogy, Drawing, Friendship Albums
United States: c.1846-c.1970. A small family archive comprised of ten (10) items: one album, two drawing books, a photographic portrait, and several pieces of miscellaneous ephemera related to the related Harmon and Peck families, dating from c.1836 to c.1970. Highlights include: the c.1836 friendship album of Miss Cornelia Harmon (1819-1898).....
Price: $425.00
Dudley, MA, Bemis house
MA: c. 1880. Eight (8) mounted photographs of the Phineas Bemis House in Dudley, Mass. Although the photographs use "Old House in Dudley", images appear to be from the Phineas Bemis house which was destroyed in 2005. One mentions it is the "South Room in the Dudley home", another "North.....
Price: $450.00
Adventurer, Naturalist, Filmmaker, Social History, Africa
1930-1939. A collection of 15 various press photos from 1930-1939 from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco papers. The photos focus primarily on Osa, but include some of the fatal plane crash of Martin. Seven (7) of the photos show Osa on excursions with animals, natives and scenery. All.....
Price: $225.00
Fire Correspondent,Journalism,Fires and Disasters
United States: c.1900. A large collection of approx. eighty-eight (88) printed calling cards/business cards related to "fire" professions, most dating from around the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and appearing to be mostly from New England and the Midwest. The majority are listed as fire correspondents, with some doubling.....
Price: $500.00
World's Fairs and Expositions,History of Chicago,1893 Columbian Exposition,Kodak,Souvenirs
Chicago, Illinois: Laird & Lee, Publishers, 1893. Seventh edition of a charming book of photos commemorating the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Published by Laird & Lee of Chicago, it features reproductions of original photographs "taken with a No. 4 Kodak". Includes over 175 photos of the Exposition's main exhibition buildings, foreign.....
Price: $175.00
Schools and Universities, Social Events,
[State College, Pennsylvania]: 1919-1920. "Poverty Day" was a light-hearted tradition at Penn State University that required incoming freshmen to parade around campus for the day in thread-bare clothing. The present six (6) photographs convey the jovial atmosphere and good times had by all. One photo of Poverty Day 1920 has.....
Price: $225.00