(1) Double column advertisement illustrated with famous elephant train advertising the 1854 season with a team of eight elephants (a baby for General Tom Thumb), Cortege of 140 horses and 100 men, Living Animals Menagerie includes a...
Heart warming (and unusual) mementos. Each man and woman recorded holding a cherished child or family pet.
Cabinet photo cut into three individual portraits, likely for a CDV album.
Found in Georgia.
Outstanding caregiver portrait, barefoot girl with doll held by Julia Bowne of Roosevelt Hospital who shows in the Children’s Ward by the mid 1890s. Beautiful condition image with wear to card stock, mount measures 5.5...
Aesthetic period Asian antiquities or importers shop including samurai armor, porcelains and masks. Five photographs measure 4 x 4.5" with chips and loss at corners. High gloss in person. Scarce reference.
Remarkable details and circumstance. Rough shod plank home identified Howesville West Virginia, early bib uniform reads B.C. / R.F. Three young girls, perhaps a mother missing or that young girl on his right is the...
Six figures in total, mounted on horseback, in three distinct pairs. From left: Frontier archetypes (possible military chevron / calvary jacket far left) with rifles; Native American men (Lakota / Sioux dress?) and men at right...
Western dress and hat with Victorian gloves and boots, she is remarkably compelling. Rich sepia tones.
Measures 3.5 x 5.5", nice condition with edge chips and finger prints (background) in the negative.
RARE view, considering the early date (1906) of camera / lighting technology. Postally sent from Mount Pleasant PA, which likely means a Henry Clay Frick mine. Measures 3.5 x 5.5”, nice condition with tear /...
Bizarre contraption and incredible details. Labeled only 'building a motor'. Rare glimpse, dates to 1900/10.
Measures 3.75 x 4.75”, thin paper with crease top right and edge tears repaired with archival tape.
INCREDIBLE circumstance and details in the itinerant’s backdrops (photographs on the ground behind) and clothing.
Identified Beallsville PA. Mount measures 6 x 8”, very nice condition with edge wear.