![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.....
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.....
![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 pair of photos of enterprising Lithuanian immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut.]. photog M. P....](/pictures/thumb/6529.jpg?v=1613067345)
Two photos documenting Lithuanian immigrants and the businesses they established in Waterbury, Connecticut, one photo taken by a Lithuanian photographer, with additional possibly related images. One of America’s least known immigrant groups, Lithuanians began arriving in the U.S. around 1850 as a result of famine in their native country.....
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.....
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.....
![An archive of artistic photographs of plantation homes and other southern subjects]. Anne Tenison...](/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 its.....
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.....
![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.....