THE LEADING LADIES OF WASHINGTON

A scarce photograph taken during President Grover Cleveland’s second term in office, showing First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland and the wives—and one sister—of Cleveland’s cabinet members, all formidably armed in “leg of mutton” sleeves. Mrs. Cleveland, striking in a white striped jacket amid the dark dresses of her entourage, is.....

EXTENSIVE PHOTO ALBUM OF NEW ENGLAND
BANK INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS, 1920s

An unusually rich document of bank architecture and bank interiors in New England and elsewhere, evidently for the use of a firm involved in bank design. Stamps on the versos of several photos suggest that this album was compiled and owned by the General Bank Equipment Co., which at the.....

ZULUS TAKE NEW YORK BY STORM

A scarce Eisenmann carte-de-visite photograph showing a Zulu woman and child and capitalizing on American fascination with Zulus following the death of Prince Napoleon and capture of King Cetshwayo in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. This photograph shows a young woman wearing beads and a knee-length, belted fur dress. One.....

An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF
NANTUCKET BOTANIST MARIA L. OWEN

A formal portrait photograph of Nantucket Island botanist Maria Louisa Owen in her later years, framed with a card bearing her signature and inscription. In this rare large-format photograph, a self-composed Owen is seated in a chair, with her right hand at her chin, holding an ear trumpet in her.....

MARVELS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CAPTURED
BY A NOTED CALIFORNIA-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER

A fine photo album, likely the photographer’s own, comprising sixty-six images picturing southern California’s mountains, seaside views, orange industry, tourist destinations, and more. The detailed pencil inscriptions below some of the images, such as “Camp Mt. Wilson Aug. 1906” and “Thanksgiving Day in Calif. 1901” (for a shot of a......

A STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT
FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

A rare, presumably unique, and truly splendid in-house photograph album documenting engines manufactured by the Brooks Locomotive Works from 1871 to 1880. Founded in 1869 by Horatio G. Brooks, the former chief engineer for the New York & Erie Railroad, the Brooks Locomotive Works built locomotives for many of the.....

INSCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR OF THE GREELY EXPEDITION

A rare photograph of an official painting by artist Albert Operti depicting the rescue of the surviving members of the Greely Arctic Expedition, inscribed by expedition survivor Sergt. Francis Long.  This image shows the rescue of members of Adolphus W. Greely’s ill-fated and grueling Lady Franklin Bay expedition. In 1881.....

DEVIL’S GATE BRIDGE CROSSING
THE WEBER RIVER IN UTAH,
PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANDREW RUSSELL

A beautiful image showing the temporary trestle known as Devil's Gate Bridge which crossed the Weber River in Utah. The Union Pacific Railroad’s line in Weber Canyon and Echo Canyon was the obvious choice when the initial surveys were made in 1864 and 1865. Its downward course along Echo Creek.....

LIVINGSTON, MONTANA & YELLOWSTONE
PHOTO ALBUM

An appealing album of 167 photos documenting the Livingston, Montana scene and Yellowstone National Park, as well as Wrangel Island, Alaska; Petersburg, Alaska; Seattle, and Tacoma, including photos taken at Camp Lewis, a World War I training camp in Tacoma. Compiled by Joseph F. Scherieble (1895–1953), this album mainly consists.....

A CHINESE APOTHECARY
IN SAN FRANCISCO’S CHINATOWN

One of only two known photographs of Quong Sang Tong’s apothecary shop at 900 Dupont Street, San Francisco, this one picturing the interior. This evocative photograph shows Tong and a young child (presumably Tong’s) standing before a doorway—flanked by two calligraphic scrolls—within his shop, an embroidered banner hanging overhead. Revealing.....

HARVARD BASEBALL TEAM PHOTO, 1904,
FEATURING GROUNDBREAKING BLACK STAR
WILLIAM CLARENCE MATTHEWS

A rare original photograph of Harvard University’s 1904 baseball team, featuring pathbreaking star shortstop William Clarence Matthews, who broke the color barrier in professional baseball and went on to work in Washington, D.C. as one of the first African American Assistant Attorneys General. Seated second to the left in the.....

HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLASS ALBUM, 1872,
WITH OVER 200 PHOTOS

A marvelous two-volume Harvard University class album comprising 205 original photographs, picturing the administration, faculty, students, and campus scenes, including images of a number of notable figures. Vol. 1 features photographs of 124 members of the class; Vol. II comprises photographs of the administration, including the president, the ex-president, the.....