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
1880s 9.5 x 6.5 photo of G. A. R. unit, Sheffield, Iowa
Photo measures 9.5 x 6.5 inches, good condition, some stains and wear at lower corners, spotting and stains to verso. Pictured is what looks like a G. A. R. unit, with flag, man on horse with sword, etc. To the left is Hocking and Slade's Variety Store, which was opened.....
1880s photo album: Jamestown & Rochester, NY, Los Angeles, Connellsville PA, Pittsburgh PA
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.....
1890s photo of tourists in Egypt in front of the Sphinx, pyramid in distance
Measures 9.5 x 7.75 inches, very good, mounted on old card stock which is stained on the verso.
1899-1905 photo album featuring 10 year old Helen's trip Montreal - Europe, Swiss Alps, Low Countries, England, Paris, Rhine
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 --.....
1932-1934 photo album: Falfurrias Texas high school football practice & games, all captioned with names
In a modern binder, 22 photos of teenagers playing football in Southern Texas (160 miles south of San Antonio), all neatly dated and captioned with players' names. Mainly of boys practicing or playing football, a couple photos of other activities and of the co-ed tennis team. Researching some of the.....
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.....
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.
Ca. 1910 photo album: well dressed women, fancy hats, Teddy Bears, boy on bike, boy in policemen costume, women in Japanese robes
Album measures 7 x 5 and contains 24 photos that are now inserted into windowed pages (visible area for each photo is 5 x 3 inches), very good. No identifying captions, names, no way for us even to know where these people lived. A well dressed lot, many of women.....
Ca. 1910s 19 x 15 framed photo of moving trucks -- some horsedrawn -- Harrison, New Jersey
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.....
Ca. 1944 large framed photo of B-29 Superfortress Bomber with hundreds of servicemen
Visible photo measures 19 x 15, framed and glazed in an old frame measuring 22 x 18. B-29s were in production from 1943-46.
Ca. 1945 real photo postcard of Albert Einstein
Very good, light wear and soil - small crease to one corner, stamped on verso Foto-Brucke[?] I M G958, Bismarckplatz - which we assume to be Heidelberg. Photo shows Einstein as an old man, ca. 1945.
Cabinet photo of Crown Princess Thyra of Denmark, ca. 1880
Photo measures 5.5 x 4 inches, on thick gray mount, very good. The princess, 1853-1933, had a child illegitimately in the winter of 1871, the product of a liaison between her and a dashing young officer attached to the court. She was forced to give up the child, and eventually.....
Le Point XXIII, La Photographie Ancienne
Paris: Lanzac, par Souillac (Lot), Ca. 1940. Small quarto, wraps, very good, 48 pp, illustrated, with articles by Aragon, George Besson et al. One of the articles is on Nadar.
Lot 48 original 1900s-1930s cabinet photos: British Peerage, Nobility, Lords and Ladies
Most of the photos in very good condition, mostly mounted, some not, almost all identified on the versos, probably part of the collection of a NY press photo repository in the old days. Mounts measure approx. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, photos measure -- usually -- 6 x 4 inches approx.....
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...
Very long panoramic photo: Trap Shoot at Butler, Indiana, September 27, 1915
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.....
Aaron Siskind 100
New York: Powerhouse Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. First Printing with full number line. c.2003. Hardcover. Red cloth. 4to. Illus. Very Good+. Light general shelfwear, small ding near foot of spine with small tear to cloth.
The World of Atget
New York: Paragon, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. 1979. Reprint. Paperback. 176 b&w photographs. Very good. Mild age-toning to edges of pages. Crease to lower right corner of front wrap, top right corner. Bubbling to laminate to front wrap. Fading to rear wrap.
Berenice Abbott Photographs
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.
The World of Atget
New York: Berkley Windhover Book, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 180 b&w plates. Very good. Light wear, soiling to wraps. Sticker shadow to half-title (smaller than a dime).
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.....
Stay This Moment
Charlottesville: The Professional Photography Division of Eastman Kodak Company and Thomasson-Grant, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, inscribed by Sam Abell on the titlepage, cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. Third printing. Hardcover. 1984, Third printing. Hardcover. 177 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very good in a very good price-clipped dustjacket. DJ edgeworn and peeling slightly along front top edge; front panel lightly soiled. DJ flaps and endpapers faded. Previous owner's inscription in pen.....
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. Third printing. Hardcover. 1984, Third printing. Hardcover, 4to., black cloth. 177 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. DJ lightly edgeworn. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. DJ in mylar.