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.
Canvas back drop and wood floor, perhaps a traveling photo wagon? Seated just below the edge of the hanging American flag. Beautiful and tonal sepia. Measures 3.5 x 5.5”, very good condition with thumb crease...
Exceptional visual reference including beaded animals and club, grass baskets, clay water pot, kachina, dolls, totem pole and figural effigies. Startling contrast of a caucasian child posed amongst the collection as though toys, wearing a...
William Rau was a seminal name in the opening decades of the early 20thc. He photographed Teddy Roosevelt's Inauguration, the Eruption of Mount Pelee and was the OFFICIAL photographer of the St. Louis World's Fair....
Remarkable for the time. Celebrating higher education with a loyal dog at her feet, both historically very male portrait tropes. Real photo postcard measures 3.5 x 5.5”, heavy development reads warm and mottled. Signed Meadville...
Rather sympathetic and beautiful portrait for a medical assessment, photographer's studio backdrops intentionally minimized. Measures 3.5 x 5.5”, very nice condition with thumb crease near bottom left. AZO stamp block, paper at least made in...
Rare insight. Portrait of a clerk or warden and signed Yours Truly Clifford C. Mitchell, unclear if that is the photographer’s signature or the professionals. Faint mimeograph on reverse reads This photo made by an...
Striking dress of a man who has clearly lived. Squire Skimp is a reference to a lovable con man on a radio comedy (Lum and Abner) that ran through the 1940s. Measures 3.5 x 5.5”,...
Sweet faced boy perfectly framed by religious totems and nun's warm gaze.
Trimmed (as original) measures 3.25 x 5.5” with uneven top edge and captioned in pencil on reverse.