A True Likeness. The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936.
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...
Photography
Old News: Resurrection City.
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.....
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Kid Chocolate. Undefeated Featherweight Champion… [caption title].
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.....
![[Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State]. N. Y....](/pictures/thumb/3728509_1.jpg?v=1555520822)
[Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State].
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....
Annals of the First African Church, in the United States of America, Now Styled The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia [...] Established by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen and Others, in 1787… [with carte de visite photograph of author]
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...
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Clarence E. Long. Age 10 Yrs. The Hoosier Boy Rifle Shot. Lafayette, Ind. [caption title]
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...
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[Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897.
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...
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[1910 Fraternal Lodge Photograph from Ephrata, Pennsylvania].
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...
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[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs].
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...
Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou.
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...
Forty-Fifth Meeting Aug. 22 1896. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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...
In the Shadow of Pike’s Peak. A View Book of The Pike’s Peak Region.
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.....
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[Mammoth Photograph of an American Bridal Party].
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.....
[Carte de Visite of an English Cocker Spaniel wearing spectacles, posing on a footstool with boy nearby].
Humorous carte de visite photograph of a young boy and his English Cocker Spaniel dog. The long-eared spaniel stands partly upright, fore paws on a....
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[Carte de Visite:] Mr. and Mrs. Gen. General Tom Thumb.
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......
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[Carte de Visite:] Lincoln Family.
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...
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[Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn].
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.....
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[Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait].
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.....
![[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 Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln].
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...
[1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original Photographs].
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]...
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Aloha Hawaii. [Hawaii Postal Envelope with Panoramic and Other Views from Photographs]
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....
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The White Slave. [Stereoview Card]
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...
Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones.
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...
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[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York].
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...
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[Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]
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.....