![Part of the Crew, U.S.S. Bear in 1898. Relive [sic] Expedition on the Ice, at Point Barrow. H....](/pictures/thumb/5282_1.jpg?v=1572632476)
A rare photo of ten members of a relief expedition for 275 stranded whalers, commanded by African-American Capt. “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy. This photograph shows ten members of the crew of the USS Bear at Point Barrow in 1898, wearing fur jackets and mukluks and posing with harpoons. One.....
An interesting collection of views, mainly of major architectural monuments, but also including street scenes and a few genre subjects (a troika in summer, ditto in winter, and a street vendor and customers in front of the Tsar Bell). The locations are Moscow (23), St. Petersburg (10) and Nijni Novogorod.....
![Photo Portrait of Maria Louisa Owen.]. Jas? Homan?, photog](/pictures/thumb/5573_1.jpg?v=1576099214)
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.....
![“Intelligent Contrabands” [manuscript title]. [Two slaves in Louisiana]. McPherson, photog...](/pictures/thumb/5991_1.jpg?v=1589383406)
One of a series of photographs of slaves taken by McPherson & Oliver in Louisiana during the Union occupation, likely in Baton Rouge where many slaves came to the Union line following the occupation in May of 1862. Pictured are two African American men in what appears to be a......
A fine, large panoramic photograph featuring the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery on horseback and wagons in El Paso, Texas, during the Mexican Revolution (ca. 1910–1920). Commanded by state senator William B. McKee from Pittsburgh, this company was stationed at Camp Stewart to guard the Texas-Mexico border against attacks by Pancho.....
![Bowdoin College Class of ‘68]. William Pierce, photog](/pictures/thumb/4325_1.jpg?v=1560463618)
A splendid copy of the Bowdoin College class book for 1868, containing an appealing selection of original photographs, most notably a striking profile portrait of Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, in uniform, inscribed by Chamberlain on the opposite page. This handsome volume is illustrated with original photographs of faculty.....
Pictured here are the men involved in crushing a mutiny carried out by 356 inmates at the Kansas State Penitentiary Coal Mine on 17 March 1901. They are shown proudly posing with their pistols, all but one in uniform, apparently standing in front of the prison, two of them African.....
A rare photographic trade card for Henry J. Kruse, a German emigre drawn to Colorado in 1860 at the age of 22 by the lure of the gold fields. Failing to strike it rich, Kruse abandoned mining and took up baking, thus launching a career that would see him emerge.....
![Livingston, Montana and Yellowstone Photo Album]. Joseph F. Scherieble, W. S. Berry, photog](/pictures/thumb/5845_1.jpg?v=1579630224)
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.....
A scarce pair of studio photographs of Choctaw children, including a boy and two girls, by noted western photographer and painter Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823–1899). While dated 1872 in manuscript, the Smithsonian dates the portrait of the two girls to 1868 and identifies Shindler as the photographer. The portrait.....
A rare and quite remarkable stereoscopic view book, illustrated with 103 mounted views, constituting an unusually extensive photo-survey of the city of Syracuse, New York in the late 1870s. This is effectively a booster book, both the text and illustrations celebrating the advantages and beauties of the city and.....
![Harvard University Class Album, Class of 1872]. George Kendall Warren, photog](/pictures/thumb/4099_1.jpg?v=1588942744)
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.....