This is “Chamor” the home and family of Dr. August Carl Morck (1859–1925), an optometrist, inventor of bifocal improvements and a prominent citizen in Oil..... Read More about The Residence of Mrs. Anne C. Morck 205 West First Street. Oil City, Pennsylvania. [“Chamor”...
An elegant monograph on early South Carolina photographer, Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), showing almost 200 of his works. Roberts ran a photo studio in Columbia... Read More about A True Likeness. The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
New York City street photographer, Jill Freedman lived in the protest encampment, “Resurrection City” at Washington, D.C. for six weeks, documenting The Poor Peoples Campaign..... Read More about Old News: Resurrection City
![Kid Chocolate. Undefeated Featherweight Champion… [caption title]. “Kid Chocolate”,...](/pictures/thumb/3728532_1.jpg?v=1554304015)
Publicity photograph of Afro-Cuban boxer Eligio Sardiñas-Montalvo (1910–1988) who fought under the nickname“ Kid Chocolate.” In 1931, Sardiñas became the first Cuban world boxing champion..... Read More about Kid Chocolate. Undefeated Featherweight Champion… [caption title
![Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State]. N. Y....](/pictures/thumb/3728509_1.jpg?v=1555520822)
Archive of 21 loose photographs showing highway automobile accidents in Westchester County, New York as documented by New York State Troopers out of Troop K.... Read More about Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State
First edition of this rare history of the first African Episcopal Church in America, St. Thomas Church in Philadelphia. Mounted opposite the title page is... Read More about Annals of the First African Church, in the United States of America, Now Styled The African...
![Clarence E. Long. Age 10 Yrs. The Hoosier Boy Rifle Shot. Lafayette, Ind. [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/3725231_1.jpg?v=1546988876)
C. 1893 photo souvenir card of a 10-year-old boy trick shooter, Clarence E. Long of Lafayette, Indiana. The composite photograph shows nine vignettes of young... Read More about Clarence E. Long. Age 10 Yrs. The Hoosier Boy Rifle Shot. Lafayette, Ind. [caption title
![Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897. Dunklee,...](/pictures/thumb/3727798_1.jpg?v=1540853604)
Rare photographic souvenir album with 35 mounted albumen photographs documenting a coaching parade and fair held in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the county seat of Franklin County... Read More about Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897
![1910 Fraternal Lodge Photograph from Ephrata, Pennsylvania]. Ephrata Titus, Pa, photographer](/pictures/thumb/3727779_1.jpg?v=1539214281)
Striking circa 1910 Ephrata, Pennsylvania photograph of a fraternal lodge showing some members dressed as Native Americans. The image shows an array of 46-star American... Read More about 1910 Fraternal Lodge Photograph from Ephrata, Pennsylvania
![Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from... Read More about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
1915 Photographic souvenir of an autobus tour of Colorado Springs and Manitou. The folding photo brochure contains two mounted photographs, one depicting a sweeping roadside... Read More about Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
A rare photograph of the participants in the 45th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Buffalo, New York in... Read More about Forty-Fifth Meeting Aug. 22 1896. American Association for the Advancement of Science
A stunning copy. View book of the Pike’s Peak region of Colorado, encompassing its high Rocky Mountain terrain and the towns of Denver, Colorado Springs..... Read More about In the Shadow of Pike’s Peak. A View Book of The Pike’s Peak Region
![Mammoth Photograph of an American Bridal Party]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3727240_1.jpg?v=1537547098)
Poignant, an unusual, extremely large-format or “mammoth” studio photograph of an American bridal party. We’ve never seen a wedding photo so large. Even the wedding..... Read More about Mammoth Photograph of an American Bridal Party
![Carte de Visite:] Mr. and Mrs. Gen. General Tom Thumb. General Tom Thumb, Mercy Lavinia Warren...](/pictures/thumb/3727515_1.jpg?v=1535409020)
Full-length CDV portrait of General Tom Thumb and his wife, the celebrated dwarf circus performers for P.T. Barnum. The CDV appears to be after a...... Read More about Carte de Visite:] Mr. and Mrs. Gen. General Tom Thumb
![Carte de Visite:] Lincoln Family. Abraham Lincoln](/pictures/thumb/3727514_1.jpg?v=1535409019)
Carte de visite photograph of the Civil War-era family of President Abraham and Mary Lincoln derived from an engraving made by engraver Adam B. Walter... Read More about Carte de Visite:] Lincoln Family
![Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn]. Isabella Jane Hawthorn](/pictures/thumb/3727513_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Here, a “gem” tintype portrait of young Isabella Jane Hawthorn, with her hand-tinted rosy cheeks, is conjoined with another Victorian custom of calling cards and..... Read More about Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn
![Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait]....](/pictures/thumb/3727109_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Miniature tintype photographs, also called “gem” photos for their diminutive size, were a popular and inexpensive photographic format in the Victorian era. Here a portrait..... Read More about Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait
![Carte de visite Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln]. Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818–1882](/pictures/thumb/3727108_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Carte de visite half-lenth portrait photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, made by Boston photographer Edward L. Allen. The... Read More about Carte de visite Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln
With 190 identified miniature portrait albumen photographs within, this Eastman Business College friendship album was kept by J. W. Hertzog of Exeter Station [now Lorane]... Read More about 1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original...
![Aloha Hawaii. [Hawaii Postal Envelope with Panoramic and Other Views from Photographs]. Hawaii...](/pictures/thumb/3726760_1.jpg?v=1534362465)
A tourist item, functioning as both a means to communicate, and mail a brief message from Hawaii (in this case in 1909), and as a.... Read More about Aloha Hawaii. [Hawaii Postal Envelope with Panoramic and Other Views from Photographs
![The White Slave. [Stereoview Card]. Dealer in.. Stereoscopes William Harrison, Views.. Philadelphia](/pictures/thumb/3726682_1.jpg?v=1534362441)
Stereoview photograph of an African-American dandy having his shoes shined by a little white boy. The caption title, The White Slave, archly refers both to... Read More about The White Slave. [Stereoview Card
Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra... Read More about Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones
![C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga...](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More about C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York
![Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]. Nolte Photographer](/pictures/thumb/3726632_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
Three images, all lettered in the negative: An image of a civic celebration in downtown Lewistown, Pennsylvania. A large Welcome banner can be seen. Lettered..... Read More about Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s
