![Boomers Adrift on Canadian River. [Caption Title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/823/573/1655573823.0.m.jpg)
Boomers Adrift on Canadian River. [Caption Title]
by [Oklahoma Land Rush – Land Rush of 1889] Hamill, Ernest C.
Oklahoma, 1800. 4 x 7 inch photograph on a 6.5 x 9 inch mat. Chip at top right corner of mat, very good contrast, overall very good. Captioned on negative “Boomers Adrift on Canadian River.”. Very good. Single photograph of a large group of “Boomer” men and women standing on a log jam across the Canadian River in... Read More
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![大越成徳遺稿 /Okoshi Narinori ikō / Miscellaneous Writings of Narinori Okoshi [With Photograph of Carmen Aguirre, Akoshi’s Spouse, Laid In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/149/116/1470116149.0.m.jpg)
大越成徳遺稿 /Okoshi Narinori ikō / Miscellaneous Writings of Narinori Okoshi [With Photograph of Carmen Aguirre, Akoshi’s Spouse, Laid In]
by Okoshi, Narinori
Tokyo: Zaisei Keizai Jihōsha, 1926. First Edition. vo, quarter cloth over paper covered boards, 173, 160 pp. With a photograph of Carmen Aguirre and a calling card laid in. Fine condition. Inscribed by Carmen Aguirre in 1927 on front free endpaper. Fine. A collection of writings by Narinori Okoshi, who worked several positions in the Japanese foreigh service,... Read More
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Poster for The Nat Towles Orchestra at Trianon Ballroom, Croweburg, Kansas
by [African-Americana – Jazz – Kansas] Nat Towles Orchestra
Omaha, Nebraska: The Metropolitan Press, 1930. 14 x 21 ½ inch poster. Worn with marginal damage; very good plus.. Nat Towles (1905–1963) was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans. His band, first called Nat Towles’ Creole Harmony Kings, was a renowned territory band in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. They would later have residences in Omaha... Read More
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![Hampton Mine. Grant’s Pass. 1890s. [Supplied Title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/445/1515445443.0.m.jpg)
Hampton Mine. Grant’s Pass. 1890s. [Supplied Title]
by [Mining - Photography - Oregon]
Oregon, 1890. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches. Fine condition, some wear to mount. Fine. A striking photograph of a group of miners in Grant’s Pass in Oregon in the 1890s, including a woman and a girl. We believe the photograph to be taken near Tom East Creek, which provides drainage from the Greenback... Read More
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Letters to William H. Sharp, A Student at California Military Academy and Merchant in Oregon
by [Oregon – California – Education] Sharp, William H.; Sharp, Mary; Ewing, Nellie E.; Chapman, C.W.; et al.
California, Oregon, Iowa, and New York, 1889. Sixty-five items: sixty-two letters, mainly dating from 1887 (eleven letters), 1888 (nineteen letters), and 1889 (fourteen letters); and three playbills from the CMA Dramatic Club. Overall excellent.. William H. Sharp (1863–deceased) was born in Washington and lived in The Dalles, Oregon. He attended the California Military Academy in Oakland from 1880... Read More
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“Mike & Dave Organization Present NYC’s Great M.C. Showdown”
by [Concert Posters – Hip Hop – New York City] Mike & Dave Organization
Queens, New York, 1982. 6 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Fine.. Flyer for the “Great M.C. Showdown” at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, hosted by Mr. Sweety-G. According to his personal website, Mr. Sweety-G—aka Glenn Toby—was working with some of the biggest hip hop artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Grandmaster... Read More
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Photo Album of African American Models, with Many from Ophelia DeVore’s Grace del Marco Modeling Agency
by [African-Americana – Fashion – Women] Bruno of Hollywood and Others
New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers, 1960. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches, containing forty-seven photographs, mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. Overall excellent. An album of photographs of African American models from the 1950s and 1960s,... Read More
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Collection of Photographs of 1960s Lahore, Taken by an American Family, with Extensive Captions Detailing Their Thoughts on the Locals
by [Pakistan – Race] Flook, Dorothy; Flook, Lyman R.; Flook, Judy; Flook, Bobby
Lahore, Pakistan, 1965. Ninety-four photographs measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches to 2 x 2 inches. Many with manuscript captions verso and some marked recto. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. Photos taken by Denverite Lyman R. Flook, Jr., and his family, with many captioned by his wife Dorothy, documenting their time living in Lahore from 1960 to 1965.... Read More
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Regular Free Soil Ticket. For Representatives to General Court, Henry Humphreys, Asaph Churchill
by [Politics - Massachusetts - Free Soil Party]
Likely Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1848. Handbill measuring 5 x 4 inches. “1848” written in pencil at upper margin, fine condition. Fine. A rare Free Soil Party handbill for a local election which was likely printed in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1848. We find records of Humphreys and Churchill in Dorchester, where both of their names appear on a large broadside... Read More
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Album Containing Forty-Six Photographs of an Exploring Mission Mostly in Patagonia, c. 1890s
by [Exploration - South America - 19th Century] [Patagonia]
Mostly Patagonia, 1890. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 3 1/4x4 1/2 to 4 1/4x6 inches, and the reverse, each with a caption, written on a label affixed to the mount below the prints. 4to, blue pictorial cloth. 1890s. In this bound photo album, forty-six photographs document a group traveling from pastoral locations in northern Argentina to breathtaking views... Read More
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Mounted Albumen Print of an American Warship in Havana Harbor, Published as part of the “Recuerdo de Cuba” Series
by [Cuba] [Spanish-American War] Leach & Patterson
Havana: R. Testar, 1890. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount, image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor, likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early 1898. The photographers, Leach and Patterson of Calle San... Read More
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Remarks on African Colonization and The Abolition of Slavery. In Two Parts
by Pearl, Cyril; “A Citizen of New England”
Windsor, 1833. 8vo, 47 pp. Near Fine. Cyril Pearl was a Vermont-based pro-colonization abolitionist who feuded locally with William Lloyd Garrison on the subject of colonization and acted as a publishing agent in Vermont for the Boston-based The Colonizationist, and Journal of Freedom, a short-lived publication published from 1833-1834 by George W. Light in Boston. In this work, Pearl... Read More
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The American Question in its National Aspect. Being Also An Incidental Reply to H.R. Helper’s “Compendium of The Impending Crisis of the South.”
by Peissner, Elias
New York: H.H. Lloyd and Co, 1861. 8vo, green cloth, 164 pp. Slight odor else about fine. Elias Peissner was born in Bavaria and exiled from his country for his activism surrounding the war there, and eventually ended up in the United States at Union College where he taught languages and literature. “He also became involved in politics, calling... Read More
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Multigenerational Archive of a Pennsylvania Family, Spanning More Than a Century
by [Pennsylvania – Presbyterian Church – Civil War – World War II] Hill, George; Hill, Harriett; Weeks, W.C.; et al.
United States, Norway, and Germany, 1960. 320 items: 276 letters, thirty-eight modern photographs, five CDVs and one cabinet card; with a large amount of unsorted ephemera. Of the letters, 198 are from the nineteenth century, with most from the 1840s through 1870s; and seventy-eight are from the twentieth century, with most from the 1940s and 1950s. Excellent.. A... Read More
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Photographic Archive of a Californian Adventurer and Doctor in South America, 1903-1918
by [Peru – Panama – Medicine] Burres, W. T.
Peru and Panama, 1918. Approximately 364 photos; album and unmounted photos (silver prints, cyanotypes, and printing-out-paper prints). Photos measure 3 x 4 to 8 x 10 inches with about half measuring 3 x 5 ½ inches. Some with photographer’s hand-stamp or credit in pencil; others with manuscript notations verso or recto; some captions to album pages. Offered in partnership... Read More
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1833 Letter from Philadelphia Describing the Visits of Andrew Jackson and Black Hawk
by [Philadelphia – Andrew Jackson – Black Hawk] Townsend, Franklin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1833. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. Folded; some damage at seal intersecting with text. Very good plus.. A letter from Franklin Townsend in Philadelphia to his school friend Edwin W. Morgan at West Point. Townsend apologizes profusely for forgetting that he had not answered Morgan’s previous letter, updates him on his job at... Read More
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“Good Luck to the American Soldiers in the Philippines”
by [Philippine-American War] Ellsworth, Herbert E. [likely]
Likely San Francisco, California, 1901. 19 x 24 inch lithograph. Much staining and chipping; folded with tears; several tape repairs verso with some residue visible recto; quite attractive, overall good plus.. A broadside lithograph commemorating a soldiers’ service in the Philippine-American war. Images of generals are set in a large blue horseshoe and eagle design over a montage... Read More
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1899 Letter from a Soldier on His Way to the Philippines Describing Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Life Aboard the Transport Ship
by [Philippine-American War – Sri Lanka – Singapore] McIntyre, James
Malacca Strait, 1899. Eight-page single letter of two double-sided pages measuring 7 ¾ x 10 inches and two double sided pages measuring 4 ½ x 7 inches. Folded with small tears at folds; near fine.. A letter from James McIntyre (1874–deceased) to his sister Kit, sent from aboard the transport ship Grant on the way to the Philippines... Read More
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Composite Photograph of 100 Portraits of Actresses, c. 1860
by [Photography] Moore, F. L.; Fredericks, Charles D.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1860. Carte de visite measuring 2 ¼ by 3 ½ inches on heavy cardstock. Wear to both photograph and mount, overall very good to excellent.. Though Dadaists are frequently credited with the invention of photomontage, techniques involving combining multiple photographs into a single composite image have been around since at least the mid-Victorian era.[1] These could... Read More
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![[Japanese-Americana – Southern California – Labor History – Women] Unknown Photographer Ten Photographs of Japanese Immigrants and Laborers in California in the Early 1900s](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/443/1687443945.0.m.jpg)
[Japanese-Americana – Southern California – Labor History – Women] Unknown Photographer Ten Photographs of Japanese Immigrants and Laborers in California in the Early 1900s
by [Japanese-Americana – Southern California – Labor History – Women] Unknown Photographer
Southern California, 1910. Ten photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller, with most measuring 5 x 7 inches. Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; some with editorial overpainting; some mounted on heavy cardstock. Marginal damage with some tears and corners missing; very good.. Japanese immigration to the US began at a large scale following the midcentury... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Album of Swedish Illinoisans, c. 1860s–1880s
by [Immigration – Illinois – Sweden] Multiple Photographers
Illinois, Iowa, and Sweden: multiple studios, 1880. Carte-de-visite album containing forty-five photographs, a mix of CDVs and tintypes. Album missing spine with front and back boards detached, some pages detached, and tears to paper, good; photographs generally excellent with normal wear.. In the mid-19th century, social, religious, and economic conditions in Sweden led to an outpouring of immigrants... Read More
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A Selectively Curated and Varied Group of Cartes-de-Visite and Tintype Images of Subjects and Religious Scenery in New Orleans, c. 1860s-1870s
by [New Orleans - Early Photography] Various Photographers
New Orleans: Various Photographers, 1870. Twenty-four cartes-de-Visite and three ninth-plate tintypes, all bearing New Orleans photographers’ marks to versos. Very good to fine. Very Good. A curated group of images of New Orleans subjects, with an emphasis on women, children and religious imagery, including one uncommon image of a rosary and another of the interior of a church.... Read More
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Collection of Eight Tintype Portraits of Latin American Subjects, c. 1870s-1880s
by [Latin Americana - Vernacular Photography]
Latin America, 1880. Eight ninth-plate tintypes measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches each, some varied wear, very good overall. Very Good. A collection of tintypes of Latin American subjects from the late nineteenth century. Tintype photography was quite uncommon in Latin America during the period, with photography dominated by the albumen, silver and printing out processes of... Read More
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Photo Album of an 1895–1896 Trip around the United States, Including Shots of Students at the Hampton Institute’s Whittier School
by [African-American History – Hampton University – Virginia – Sackets Harbor] Unknown Photographer
United States, 1896. 182 photographs mainly measuring 3 x 4 inches with some larger, mounted on heavy cardstock in a photo album. Some with manuscript captions. Several pages of album detached; slight damage and wear to pages and damage to binding; photos excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent.. A photo album documenting a number of locations in the... Read More
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Photo Album Documenting the Havana Central Railroad Company Building Its Line from Havana to Guanajay in 1906
by [Cuba – Railroad History] Unknown Photographer
La Habana Province, Republic of Cuba, 1906. Twenty-two photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock measuring 10 x 12 inches. Photos numbered and dated on negative. In album embossed with "Havana Central Railroad Co./ Progress Photographs/ GUANAJAY". Photos with fine contrast and some wear; mounts with minor damage, slightly warped, with some detached from binding.... Read More
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