A scarce published album of aerial photographs of Nantucket showing the town and island in the 1920s. Evidently published at least in part to generate interest in Nantucket real estate, this album by a popular Nantucket photographer documents the island in a series of aerial views taken in 1926.....
A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett’s noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key. The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J......
A fascinating interior view of the Oriental Tea Company shop in Boston, showing its long counters, scales, wallpaper, cabinets decorated with dragons, etc. Boston’s Oriental Tea Company was established around 1868 and operated into the twentieth century, the firm advertising itself as “Sole importers of Oriental Male Berry Java, best.....
An issue of the first newspaper published on Pike’s Peak, with a vivid front wrapper, extensive text, and photomechanical illustrations mostly from photos. The cover features a chromolithograph of a woman dressed all in red, looking through binoculars at a sunset just beyond Pike’s Peak. The railway can be.....
![Item #7449 [Cabinet photo of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.]. Frederick Gutekunst, photog](/pictures/thumb/7449_1.jpg?v=1656368843)
A scarce cabinet card photograph of educator and reformer Elizabeth Palmer Peabody near the end of her accomplished life. In an 1894 advertisement in The Nation, evidently published shortly after her death, Gustekunst advertised photos of Peabody, likely from the same sitting as the photo offered here: “Miss Elizabeth P......
A striking stereoview by Savannah photographer O. Pierre Havens showing a black woman in her dooryard regarding a dead chicken at her feet, with a gently satirical caption in the image reading “Who Kill Dat Chicken.” After the Civil War a considerable genre emerged depicting African Americans in stereoviews, often.....
![Item #5573 [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.....
A photo album documenting a 1905 western tour undertaken by a Czech American from Chicago who was active in the Freethinkers Movement. Adolf Hrusa was one of many Czechs who belonged to the Freethinkers Movement (or Society of Free-Thinkers), an organization that split from the Catholic Church as a result.....
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 Villa.....
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.....
![Item #5845 [Livingston, Montana and Yellowstone Photo Album]. Joseph F. Scherieble, W. S. Berry,...](/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 mainly consists.....
![Item #4514 [An archive of artistic photographs of plantation homes and other southern subjects]....](/pictures/thumb/4514_1.jpg?v=1612030276)
An archive of nearly sixty artistic photos of plantation houses and other historic structures and landscapes in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana, by an essentially unknown but talented Texas woman photographer mainly working in the pictorialist style, including both an album and an assortment of images both mounted and loose.....
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.....
A photo album presented to noted Maine lawyer Philip F. Chapman to commemorate his participation in the 1926 "Maine to Southland Pilgrimage," a trip undertaken by a Maine trade delegation to the American South led by then Governor R. Owen Brewster (who was also Chapman's law partner). Chapman was a......
A scarce photograph by noted New York City commercial photographer Irving Underhill (1872–1960) showing curb brokers trading stocks in the outdoor market on Broad St. in Manhattan’s financial district. During the late-1800s and early-1900s, curbstone brokers conducted trading on the actual street-curbs of financial districts—the most famous curb market being.....
![Item #4099 [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.....