1890s Vacation Photo Album of Oregon, Washington, and California, Including Shots of Early Euro-American Architecture and Indigenous People
by [Washington – Oregon – California] Unknown Photographer
Oregon, Washington, and California, 1890. One forty-two page photo album with 9 ½ x 7 inch pages; 109 total photographs with eighteen 4 x 7 inch and larger and ninety-one 3 ½ x 3 ½ inch. Larger photographs captioned on negative and likely purchased while smaller ones are original. Album pages with chipping at corners and some repair with... Read More
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Inscribed Real Photo Postcard of Japanese-American Boxer Young Togo
by [Japanese-Americana – Boxing] Young Togo; Unknown Photographer
Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard depicting Japanese-American boxer Young Togo, inscribed verso: “To K. Iwana Muskogee Oklahoma / From Young Togo fighter and jiu jitsu wrestler Muskogee Okla”. Young Togo was a lightweight and sometimes featherweight or bantamweight boxer from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who debuted around 1907.... Read More
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1950s Scrapbook of Photos of Country Musicians
by [Music History – Country Music] Unknown Photographers
United States, 1950. Eighty-four photos, including real photo postcards, mainly measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. With manuscript captions under photos and many photos captioned on negative. Photos generally excellent to Near Fine; scrapbook pages delicate with some marginal damage. Excellent.. A scrapbook of photographs of better- and lesser-known country musicians, likely assembled in the 1950s. Subjects... Read More
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Photo of Joyce Warner, Miss Black America 1971
by [African-Americana – Women – Beauty Pageants] Unknown Photographer
Tallahassee, Florida, 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner, Tallahassee, / Miss Black America” with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971”. Near Fine.. A press photo of Joyce Warner, who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was founded in 1968 by entrepreneur J. Morris... Read More
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Collection of Immigration Photographs, Mainly from Ellis Island, Early 20th Century
by [Immigration – Ellis Island – New York City] Unknown Photographer
New York City and Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Thirty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With Brown Brothers stamps verso and many with manuscript captions verso. Conditions vary; mainly very good.. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly of Ellis Island, with one from Partridge Island, Saint John, New Brunswick. The photographs include exterior shots of Ellis Island—both its... Read More
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Collection of Photographs of Women and Their Cars, 1910s–1950s
by [Women – Automobile History – Recreation] Unknown Photographers
United States and Europe, 1950. Eighty-seven photographs, mainly 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches and smaller. Many with manuscript captions and some with studio stamps. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. A collection of photographs of women and their cars, dating between the 1910s and early 1950s, with most photos dating to the 1920s and 1930s. Some photos identify... Read More
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Photograph of the Attendees of the Northern California Young People’s Christian Conference Fresno Sectional, March 1936
by [Japanese-American Christians – California – Religion] Unknown Photographer
Fresno, California, 1936. Approximately 7 x 30 inches. Some creasing, fine contrast; stored in tube with residual shape; overall excellent condition. A photograph of the attendees of a yearly meeting of an affinity group for young Japanese-American Christians in California. The first YPCC retreats were held in 1920 with the help of the Japanese YMCA and YWCA, and... Read More
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Photo Album of the 1985 Pride Parade in West Hollywood
by [California – LGBTQ History – Pride] Unknown Photographer
Los Angeles, California, 1985. 131 photos measuring 3 ½ x 5 inches with fourteen pieces of ephemera, in a photo album. Near Fine.. A photo album documenting West Hollywood’s 1985 Pride parade. Eighty-seven photos are of the parade and forty-four are of the photographer’s trip to Ventura with, presumably, her girlfriend. Marchers include feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, The... Read More
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Street View of Dance Halls in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast Neighborhood, c. 1910
by [African-Americana – Jazz – San Francisco] Unknown Photographer
San Francisco, California, 1910. Single photograph, approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches, manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific ”THE SO DIFFERENT” now 550 Pacific Ave 1911”. Appears to be trimmed from a larger photograph. Portion of image cut and pasted with editorial overpainting. Some damage to edges and corners with one tear at right middle,... Read More
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Press Photos of “The Paralyzed Industries of Japan” after the US and UK Froze Its Assets, 1941
by [World War II – Japan – Industrial History] Unknown Photographer
Japan: Brown Brothers, 1941. Five photographs. Photos measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. With typed captions previously affixed, typed captions verso, or manuscript captions verso; with Brown Brothers stamps verso. Fine contrast and slight marginal damage; overall excellent to Near Fine.. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the United States imposed a number of economic... Read More
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Press Photo of Owen Whitfield During the 1939 Sharecroppers Protest
by [African-Americana – Labor History – New Deal Era] Unknown Photographer
Chicago, Illinois: International News Photos, 1939. Single photograph measuring 5 x 8 inches with typed caption affixed verso. Some wear; excellent.. A portrait of activist preacher Owen Whitfield (1891–1965), taken during the 1939 Missouri sharecropper protest. The caption reads in part: “Preacher Owen H. Whitfield, of La Forge, MO., negro preacher who is the leader of the... Read More
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Real Photo Postcard of the Israelite House of David Ball Players
by [Baseball – Religious History – Communal Societies] Unknown Photographer
Benton Harbor, MI, 1920. Single 3 ½ x 5 ½ inch real photo postcard, captioned “House of David Ball Players”. Some damage to lower left side, mainly not intersecting with subject.. The Israelite House of David is a millenarian religious group, formed in 1903 by Benjamin and Mary Purnell. Its members are abstinent and vegetarian, and in its... Read More
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Photograph Album of roughly 1,400 Pictures Taken by a Young Woman with a Connection to the Cabot Family of Boston, Showing a Modern Eye for Composition, Circa 1930
by [Women] [Massachusetts] [Boston Brahmin] [Photography]
Boston, 1930. Oblong quarto, 49 pp. With appx. 1,400 photos, most measuring less than an inch square, with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. Very Good. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon Hill. The album, composed largely of... Read More
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An Unusual Outdoor Sixth Plate Tintype of a Zouave Soldier, Possibly from New York
by [Civil War - Zouave Regiments]][Vernacular Photography]
New York, 1860. An unusual image of a Zouave soldier in an outdoor setting, holding a horse. During the Civil War, roughly 95 Zouave regiments formed, adopting the names, uni-forms and sometimes fighting styles of the North African Zouave brigades. The bulk - about 70 of the regiments - fought for the Union cause. We were unable to determine... Read More
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Large Photographic Archive of the US Military in the Philippines, Likely Immediately Predating World War II, Including Many Photographs of Indigenous Tribes and Daily Life for Filipinos
by [Philippines – US Military Presence] Unknown photographer
Philippines and San Francisco, 1940. pproximately 205 photographs: twenty 5 x 7” and smaller, eighteen 3.75 x 5.5” and smaller, and 167 2.5 x 3.5” and smaller. Most are glued into a scrapbook with some loose. Some photographs bent or with tears; some marked with pencil. Generally very good. The US’s military presence in the Philippines is long-standing,... Read More
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Eleven Photographs of 1950s NAACP Activities in California
by [California – African-Americana – NAACP] Unknown Photographers
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, and others: McLain’s Photo Service, Bona Fide Photo Service, et al., 1950. Eleven individual photographs with one duplicate, measuring 8 x 10 inches. Slightly curled with wrinkling and some folds and tears; overall very good plus.. Eleven photographs showing NAACP activities in and around Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Most are... Read More
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Three Photographs of Eugene Debs Speaking at a Railroad Depot
by [Eugene Debs – Labor History – Railroads] Unknown Photographer
Northeast US, Unknown year. Three photographs, two measuring 5 x 7 inches and one measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. All with Brown Brothers stamps verso. Portrait marked verso “Eugene V. Debs” with editorial overpainting recto. One other photograph marked verso “Debs speaking to workers”. Excellent contrast. Overall excellent to near fine.. Eugene Debs (1855–1926) was an... Read More
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Four 1920s Press Photographs With Captions of Controversial Seminole “Chief” Tony Tommie
by [Indigenous History – Florida – Seminole Tribe] Unknown Photographer
Ft. Lauderdale, Key West, and Miami, Florida, 1926. Four photographs, three measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches and one measuring 5 x 7 inches. All with typed captions affixed to bottom. “International Newsreel” stamps and date stamps with some manuscript captions verso. Some wear and tear to captions; excellent.. Four press photographs, with lengthy captions, of Tony... Read More
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Panorama of a California Oil Field
by [California – Ventura – Oil Drilling] Unknown Photographer
Likely Ventura, California, 1900. Photograph measuring 3 ½ x 11 ½ inches, on heavy cardstock. With manuscript verso. Photograph somewhat faded with large wrinkle on left side, with some damage to mount. Very good to excellent.. A panoramic photograph of an oil field appearing to be from around the turn of the century, with a later caption verso... 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
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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Photograph of Students at the Methodist Mission in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, The Philippines
by [Protestant Missions – The Philippines – Methodism] Unknown Photographer
Vigan, The Philippines, early 20th century. Photograph measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. Manuscript caption recto. Wear and some damage to edges; excellent.. A photograph of a group of young Filipino men in suits, with two white women and a child, posing in front of a building. The caption reads “Grove Methodist Dormitory Boys... 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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Photographs of the Phelps Vocational High School in Washington, D.C., 1945–1955
by [African-Americana – Segregation – History of Education] Unknown Photographer(s)
Washington, D.C., 1955. Forty-five 8 x 10 inch photographs. Some slight damage to edges and slightly curled; excellent.. The Phelps Vocational High School was founded in 1912 as a trade school for African American boys, located in the historically Black neighborhood of Carver Langston. In the tradition of African American industrial education, the school initially specialized in printing,... Read More
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