12 Selected Post Cards, Genuine Photos, Carlsbad Taverns, New Mexico
Carsbad, NM: Cavern Supply Company, Ca. 1930s. Fold-around printed envelope housing 12 rppc postcards of the caverns, all fine, envelope just a touch of wear and soil.
Photography
1870s-1880s album of Swedish-American families in LaPorte Indiana
Hardcover. 11 x 9 inches, decorated leather, binding somewhat worn with recent cloth over spine and to inner hinges. With 10 cabinet photos and 30 CDVs (smaller photos). Not many identified by name -- the name "Bolf" appears on some, but the great majority are from photo studios in LaPorte.....
1880s cabinet photo, Samuel R. Paul, Co. H, 12th U.S. Infantry
6.5 x 4.25 inches, very good, light soil, photo itself turning a dijon mustard color and a little faded. With the ink stamp of Samuel R. Paul on back along with handwritten note: "Dolly's Uncle Samuel Paul in the Army." Date unknown, but probably 1880s.
1880s photo album: 27 CDVs, 6 cabinet photos - London, Bayswater, Croydon, Folkestone, Harrogate, Eastbourne
Hardcover. 9.5 x 7.25 inches, full leather with clasp, very good, light rubbing and wear, plate pages show some foxing but the photos are all very good. With 27 CDVs, none of them identified by name, but photo studios are London (primarily the Hellis studio), Bayswater, Croydon, Folkestone, Harrogate, Eastbourne.....
1900-1921 2 photo albums Washington County PA landscapes, New England, Somerset PA, Washington College
Ca. 1900-1921. Hardcover. Probably the albums of Ernest Jennings Michael and his wife Elsa Thusnelda Foerster Michael. 2 albums. The first is 8 x 6 inches, leather, very good, some light rubbing and wear to binding, housing just over 100 photos. No identification as to who took these or the.....
1920s photo album, Scotland and England, approximately 135 photos
Wraps. 11.5 x 8 inches, brown paper covers, good with some edgwear, a few of the pages loose. Approximately 135 photos taken in the 1920s and early 1930s, mainly of people, identified mainly by their first names. Kinveachy, Cairngorms, Ben Gulabin, Alnwick Castle, Avielochan, Kinchurdy Road, Redcar, Richmond Castle, York.....
1955 small photo album: 6 women visiting Jack Adams Reptile Park & other amusements, Long Beach Mississippi
Wraps. In 6 x 3.75 inches "Snapfolio" binder, containing 14 photos with scalloped edges measuring 4.5 x 3.25 inches, and documenting a trip by tour bus (a converted school bus) to Long Beach, Mississippi to sample its amusements, including Jack Adams Reptile Park, the beach and other entertainment and beach-food.....
2 1898 cabinet photos of Rear Admiral C. C. Carpenter, Portsmouth NH, the year before he committed suicide
2 cabinet photos (both measure, including the mount boards, 6.5 x 4.25 inches), very good, light wear, one inscribed on the back by Carpenter, the other with the note "taken in summer of 1898." Information on Carpenter that follows taken from an obituary from a Boston newspaper of April 2.....
26 Real Photo Postcards of Women in Hats, 1900s-1920s
London/ Germany/ Cleveland/: Carlton Publishing/ Frieda Gofferje/ Miss Morrison's Penny Photo/ William Hudlett, ca. 1910s-20s. Lot of 26 real photo post cards featuring women in fashionable hats, mostly 1910s-1920s, printed in London, Germany, and a few from photographers in Cleveland, OH. Most women in formal portraits, alone or in groups.....
3 1890s mounted photos of William Hopley's farm & cattle, Atlantic, Iowa
3 photos, the mounts on thick gray stock measure 6 x 5 inches, the photos measure 4 x 3 inches and show livestock. They are identified as being photos of William Hopley's farm in Atlantic IA. From an 1884 history of the area comes a biography of Hopley (1836-1908): "William.....
4 1870s large mounted oval photos of Louis II of Bavaria, General Karl Friedrich v. Steinmetz, Victor Emanuel II of Italy, Gen. Albrecht von Roon
4 images mounted on stiff card stock measuring 10 x 8 inches, the photographs of engraved portraits measuring 7 x 5 inches. Light erasable surface soil, a sprinkling of tiny spots, with names printed in gold with oval gilt ruling around images. Thrown in for good measure is a similar.....
44 RPPCs Western PA & Pittsburgh 1936 flood; Real Photo Postcards
Pittsburgh: Hubbard's Views et al. 1936. Pittsburgh: Hubbard's Views et al. ca. 1930s. Lot of 46 real photo postcards of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Most are of the devastating St. Patrick's Day flood of 1936, where river levels reached 46 feet and destroyed houses, businesses, and steel mills, putting thousands.....
49 b/w photos from about 1950 of a trip out west: Mt. Rushmore, Old Faithful, Pike's Peak, Yellowstone Upper Falls, Grand Canyon
49 photos, mainly measuring 5 x 3.5 inches, all with gentle curve/curl. Shows two women and sometimes a man traveling in a car that looks like it's from about 1950, with scenes at Mt. Rushmore, Pike's Peak, Yellowstone Park including Old Faithful and the Upper Falls, scenes in the Badlands.....
8.5 x 6.5 ca. 1900s photo of Brookside Furniture Co. horsedrawn moving wagon -- Cleveland??
On worn and chipped mounting, but the photo itself is very good and bright. Picked up in a NE Ohio antique store and research shows there was a Brookside Furniture Co. in the Cleveland area back then. Handsome photo with lots of personality.
8x10 photo of Celebration of the New Golden Gate Bridge, 1937
8x10 original photo, very good. Labeled in pencil on the back as celebration of the New Golden Gate Bridge -- which opened in 1937 -- but the photo seems to show the state capitol building at Sacramento --?
Ca. 1900s photo of a thatched lodge with antelope decorations, Victoria Falls Africa
Photo measures 7.5 x 5 inches, very good, light wear and creasing to lower right corner and tiny tear along left side. "At Victorial Falls" in pencil on verso. Thatched lodge has walls decorated with images of antelopes, possibly impalas. We assume this is Victoria Falls in Africa on the.....
Charming 1910s photograph portrait of young girl with her Teddy Bear
No date or any other information, ca. 1910s just from the look. On 8 x 6 inch mounting card, photo itself measures 5.5 x 4 inches and shows a somber girl of seven years old or so, holding her Teddy Bear.
DoubleTake photography magazine, Spring 1997 - Spring 2003, 24 issues (nos. 8-30)
Boulder: Duke University; DoubleTake Community Service Corporation, 1997-2003. Wraps. 24 issues: nos. 8-30 (lacking no. 12) plus Special Issue from fall 2001 (post 9/11 issue). Each issue 11 x 9 inches, softcover, each 100-140 pp, mainly photography but also literature, poetry, essays and articles, with A-list photographers and authors. Group.....
Handsome 1870s-1880s leatherbound photo album, Illinois studios: Sandwich, Somonauk, Elgin, Plano, Chicago, Aurora, Earlville
Hardcover. Album measures 11 x 8.5 inches, good to very good, clasp intact, light rubbing and wear to binding, some of the pages have torn slots where the photos would fit, but mainly very good. Hardly any names of the people are given, but the photo studios are almost all.....
Handsome 1920s linen backed photo of Worcester Wollen Mill Co. truck unloading at warehouse
8x10 inches, very good, with linen backing. Photo shows a 1920s truck unloading at a warehouse in an industrial setting.
Large 1937 photo album documenting trip to Queen Elizabeth's coronation,
Hardcover. 16 x 12 inches, thick brown embossed leather with relief of Roman charioteer, rawhide stitching around edges, very good, light wear and rubbing, with about 50 pages of captioned photos and postcards, almost all of which were commercially purchased, well over 200 images. Includes (loosely inserted) souvenir program for.....
Old 1880s-1890s photo album of London and Edinburgh, 49 photos mostly measuring 8" x 6"
Hardcover. 11 x 7.25 inches, black cloth, very good, with 49 mounted photos, mainly measuring 8 x 6 inches, with captions neatly printed in white within the image, tourist photos purchased from a professional. Showing some of the main landmarks in London and Edinburgh, the photos are not glossy silver.....
Photo album documenting 1926 construction of 5 million gallon reservoir near Pittsburgh
(Pittsburgh): C. G. Wright, (1926). Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 14.5 x 8.5 inches, cloth binder housing 14 photographs, linen backed, 13 of which combine 2 photos for panoramic views that measure 18 x 7.5 inches; the 14th is 9 x 7.5 inches. Typewritten captions on versos. The first one has the.....
Sto Let Ceske Fotografie, 1839-1939
Praze: Umelecko-Prumyslove Museum, 1939. First printing. Paperback. Paperback, illustrated (some in color), 175 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, light rubbing to tips and edges, minor discoloration to some pages of the text. Our copy in protective mylar. Rare book. Digital images available upon request...
Lives I've Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White
Cleveland, OH: Arc Press, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1983, Number XI of XXV copies signed with facsimile lithograph signature of Minor White and directly by Abe Frajndlich (as well as personal inscription from Frajndlich), accompanied by signed silver print of "Minor in Leather Jacket". Oblong quarto, bound in.....