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
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
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
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
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
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
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
parade, photograph, grange society, women, festival, agricultural
Raymond, NH: 1914. Black and white photograph on brown mount. Depicts women standing on a parade float, being pulled by two horses: float consists of a large cart, draped in white fabric, with 16 women and their driver on board. All of the women are wearing white dresses, and there.....
Price: $65.00
cleveland lightning rod company, lightning rod, whaling, insurance,, China Mutual
New Bedford, MA: 1869-1873. A grouping of four items belonging to Joseph Vera, New Bedford, MA. The first is an insurance policy relating specifically to his home being destroyed by fire caused by lightening strikes. The policy is associated with the installation of a Cleveland Lightening Rod and its proper.....
Price: $325.00
Menu, Travel and Tourism, Social History
New Castle, NH: 1910. An 8" x 5 3/4" menu card from the Hotel Wentworth, New Castle, NH. August 7, 1910. The menu side of the card has a gold embossed logo at top with gold border trim. Fare is extensive and includes Fresh Lobster a la Newburg, Broiled Sweetbreads.....
Price: $125.00
Photography, Barn Raising, Communities, Masculine Bonds
United States: 1880s. Original photograph of two dozen or so men in rural America participating in a barn raising in the late nineteenth century. A barn raising was when male members of the community would gather to build (or rebuild) a barn for one of their own, who would go.....
Price: $100.00
friendship, photography
1888. Two (2) photographs taken of a group of young people while sitting on a porch. It appears as though they are on a holiday or picnic, as several people are holding lawn tennis rackets. The first photo shows a group of thirteen (13) people, some appearing quite affectionate or.....
Price: $150.00
Patent Medicines, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, History of Photography in Ephemera
Providence, Rhode Island: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., c1866. Printed trade card with applied photographic image advertising Dr. Bicknell's Great Cholera Remedy, with an interesting inclusion: pasted to the recto is a (very Victorian, and slightly morbid) photographic reproduction of "Columbia's Grief", an artwork depicting the allegorical Columbia weeping over Abraham.....
Price: $175.00
Stereoscopes, Optics, Paper with a Secret
New York, New York: W.T. Georgen Optician, c.1910. Illustrated tri-fold pamphlet advertising the Perspectoscope, a kind of stereoscope that purports to "Double the value of the Camera" and "make its pictures look like the real object" (i.e. three-dimensional). Includes a photo of a child looking through the scope exclaiming, "Oh.....
Price: $150.00
Menu, Photography, Kodak Park Works
Kodak Paper Works. A 4 5/8" x 7" menu card printed on photographic paper with the exterior of the Kodak Park Works building on the left and a menu printed on the right for Luncheon on Monday, July Thirtieth, 1926. The reverse is blank. George Eastman shows first amateur color.....
Price: $175.00
Entertainment, Women's Work, Quartette
Boston, MA: Holland (photographer), 1880s. A 9 3/4" x 13 1/4" photograph on card on a slightly larger mount captioned "Ariel Quartette". Depicts the four singer in a parlor scene, perhaps the studio, presumably in performance attire as each of their light colored dresses is adorned with floral garlands. A......
Price: $225.00
travel album, photograph, tourism, statue of liberty, Furness Bermuda Line, Tom's Moore's House Tavern, travel
Germany: 1920s. An travel album with 18 photographs of a trip from New York to Bermuda. The first photograph depicts the Furness Bermuda Line Offices in New York, which ran a line of shipping vessels that ferried passengers from New York to Bermuda. The next few pictures show the Statue.....
Price: $175.00
parade, costume, photograph, jeweler, wagon, advertisement, fraternal
Newville, PA: Elias Alexander Bloser, [1890]. A black and white photograph of a large group of mostly men and young boys standing in front of E. A. Bloser Wholesale and Retail Jeweler store. In the center is a wagon with the stores name in front, with men in bizarre costumes.....
Price: $150.00
Costume, C. Bennette Moore, Photography
New Orleans: C. Bennette Moore, 1930s. A 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" photograph of two young women, perhaps sisters wearing identical gowns with matching oversized capes. Adorned with large applique four leaf clovers and long silk tassels at the collar of the cape. Unusual background with two archways or similar.....
Price: $375.00