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 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.....
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.....
1910s photo album of the interior of a large spooky house
Hardcover. 10 x 7.5 inches, green pebbled cloth, good to very good, with 17 photos, visible area 6 x 4.5 inches, of the interior of a large house with Victorian and Edwardian furniture and fixtures. A spooky old woman appears in some of them. Found in a Western Pennsylvania house.....
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.....
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.....
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. 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-24 Liberator Bomber with hundreds of servicemen
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.
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.
Figure Studies Annual number Eight ca. 1950s
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.
Group of 5 1890s photos 7 x 5 inches, railroad men unlinking freight cars
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".....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Professional Portrait Lightings
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.....