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.
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.
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.....
Hardcover. 16 x 7 inches, velvet pillowed covers, good but not very good condition, some wear and tattiness. With 49 cabinet photos (5 x 3 images), with about half of them from Jamestown NY studios, another 10 or so from Rochester studios, perhaps 8 from Los Angeles, and the rest.....
Album measures 6 inches wide, with over 70 photos, the best of them feature a girl around 10 named Helen boldly staring at the camera in the Swiss Alps, notably Andermatt, Ragatz, and near the Matterhorn; the shipboard photos are excellent -- the SS Rotterdam and the SS Virginian --.....
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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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 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 --?
Large vintage photo printed from a glass plate negative (not examined outside the frame), visible photo measures 19 x 15 inches, matted, framed and glazed, frame measures approx. 24 x 29 inches; very nice condition, recent matting, frame looks considerably older, slightly battered. Handsome photo showing the moving conveyances of.....
Photograph itself measures 7 x 5 inches, on gray stiff backing sheet measuring 9 x 7 inches. Near fine condition. No idea where this store is or when the photo was taken: some expert on bikes can probably date the picture from them. In the lefthand cabinet are dolls and.....
Visible photo measures 19 x 15, framed and glazed in an old frame measuring 22 x 18. B-24s were in production from 1940-1945.
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.
NP: FS, Ca. 1955. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear, 66 pp. of b/w nude photography. No date, looks to be mid 1950s.
5 photos, each 7 x 5 inches, condition is good with surface soil, light creases, general wear, one of the photos with light corner loss. Each shows a laborer manually working on the links & hitches between freight railroad cars. Two photos look like they have the end of "Pennsylvania".....
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.....
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.....
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...
Kendallville, IN: Sullivan photo studio, 1915. Photo measures approximately 47 x 7.5 inches, in old frame that measures approximately 50 x 10 inches. Condition of photo is good with general light surface soil, some old shallow stains along very top edge of photo, and along left border of photo evidence.....
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. First printing. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, quarto, 176pp., heavily illustrated in b&w. Book has small scuff to spine foot on rear joint, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
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.....
New York: Greenberg, 1947. Hardcover. Yellow cloth in original dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, very good in good dust jacket, gift inscription on the front flyleaf, some soiling and discoloration to the covers, soiling to the dust jacket, heavy wear to the dust jacket including creasing, tearing, and loss.....
San Francisco: Crocker-Union, 1940. First Printing. Wraps. 12.25 x 11.5 inches, wraps, good or better, light wear, small hole at bottom of front cover and first few pages. About 50 pp, well illustrated, a few in color. With introduction by Adams, "Photography as an Art" by Newhall (with pasted in.....
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976. First printing. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, 108 plates, no page numbers.