An evocative photo album documenting the lives of African Americans during the Vietnam War, recording the camp-life of soldiers (with additional photos taken stateside), as well as their embrace of the Black Power movement and culture. Compiled by a presently unidentified participant in the war, this album includes many candid.....
An informative and attractive album depicting life—theatrical life in particular—at this now defunct women’s college on the Hudson River in the early twentieth century. Originally established as Mrs. Dow’s School in 1903 at Briarcliff Lodge, a premier resort hotel in the Hudson Valley, in the late 1910s the institution.....
A scarce cabinet card photo of Jefferson Shields, a camp slave during the Civil War who later gained fame by claiming to have been Stonewall Jackson’s personal cook, and whose prominent attendance at Civil War reunions helped establish the myth of “Black Confederates.” Jefferson Shields (1829–1918) was born into slavery.....
This photo cartoon shows Jefferson Davis in his last moments as President of the Confederate States of America. Wearing a dress, bonnet and spur-heeled boots, Davis holds a dagger in one hand and the voluminous folds of his dress in the other as he attempts to make a run for.....
A Florida photo album depicting in part the peak of Daytona Beach's automobile racing and the dawn of a new American obsession. This album, evidently documenting a group—possibly family—outing to the Daytona Beach auto races, testifies to the growing popularity among everyday people of automobile racing and speed records in.....
A fine album documenting a visit by company officials or investors to the Murray Mogridge Mine in Maisonville Township, Ontario, Canada, a site consisting of gold-bearing quartz veins. Prior to 1914, the Dane Copper Mining Company drilled a fifty foot shaft on the site, ultimately abandoning operations. From 1917 to.....
A group of albums and loose photos compiled by a psychiatric nurse who worked at the second government-run psychiatric hospital in Maryland. Only the second of its kind in Maryland, Springfield Hospital Center was established in 1896 and relieved its overflowing predecessor, the Spring Grove Hospital Center. Its grounds had.....
A fascinating photo album assembled by a French Jesuit missionary in China during the first quarter of the 20th century. This album tells the story of Jesuit priest Père Crochet who began working as a missionary in China in the 1890s, remaining there until at least the 1930s. Two larger.....
A cabinet card photogaph of a Pike’s Peak mule bearing a sign reading: “I Helped to Build Pikes Peak Rail!” The mule is loaded down with a crate of explosives, a variety of axes, shovels, a can of water or gas, and more. The Pike’s Peak railroad was under construction.....
![Item #7332 President’s Band, Port au Prince [recto caption]. [at verso:] Ex President General...](/pictures/thumb/7332.jpg?v=1663867243)
A rare and striking pair of images picturing Haiti’s Presidential band and Haiti’s President Tirésias Simon Sam, who served at the turn of the century. The photo on the recto shows thirty-nine band members organized in four rows standing on the steps of a building with columns and three tall.....
![Item #4561 Residence [of] Albert L. Sessions Bristol Connecticut. Architects Griggs & Hunt...](/pictures/thumb/4561_1.jpg?v=1613494566)
A photo album documenting the construction of an imposing Colonial Revival house built for A. L. Sessions of Bristol, Connecticut. During the 19th century, Bristol was the center of Connecticut clock-making. Among its manufacturers was the E. N. Welch Company, which by the later 19th century had become saddled with.....
![Item #7633 [Views documenting Petersburg, Virginia and the African American presence there.]...](/pictures/thumb/7633_1.jpg?v=1664294443)
A late-19th century album with smartly-composed views in and around the Birdville neighborhood of Petersburg, Virginia, featuring the historically-black Virginia State Normal School and including images of African American domestic workers in a local home. This album contains photos showing the beautiful, vine-strewn home of the album's unknown compiler, including.....
An appealing and historic photo album documenting the first continuous circumnavigation completed by a cruise ship, with a fine selection of large images, mainly of Asian subjects. Lasting some 130 days, the cruise documented in this album was undertaken by Cunard’s passenger liner Laconia, which departed from New York on.....
![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover-title]. L. Austin, compiler](/pictures/thumb/5864_1.jpg?v=1585670404)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a wealthy family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American.....
![Item #6148 [1920s Hawaii photo album with “The Big Kahuna” content.]. Ray Jerome Baker,...](/pictures/thumb/6148.jpg?v=1611604763)
An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist’s trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku—the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer—and an engaging variety of other.....
![Item #3662 [Cover title:] Japanese Russian War 1904. [A personal album of hand-captioned...](/pictures/thumb/3662_1.jpg?v=1560463357)
A significant and captivating photographic archive recording the first modern war from the perspective of an important figure in its documentation, pioneering American war correspondent and photojournalist Richard Barry. This remarkable archive contains half stereographic photographs taken and captioned by Barry during the Russo-Japanese War, some of which illustrate his.....
![Item #5692 [Beppo Wallenda Circus Tour photo album.]. Beppo, compilers Mary Wallenda](/pictures/thumb/5692_1.jpg?v=1580334844)
A delightful photo album evidently compiled by Beppo and Mary Wallenda, chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the U.S. Vividly depicted in this album is the world of European and American circuses and traveling circus troupes with a mixture of publicity shots and intimate candid photos.....
![Item #5490 [Locomotive photo archive.] Photographs; Porte Feuille [cover-titles]. Boston,...](/pictures/thumb/5490_1.jpg?v=1575040057)
An impressive photo archive documenting a range of locomotives built for the Boston & Providence Railroad by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works; the Taunton Locomotive Mfg. Co.; Mason Machine Works; the Hinkley & Williams Works, and the Boston & Providence itself. Forty-two of the various engines pictured were produced between.....
A scarce published album of aerial views 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. The.....
![Item #7376 Electric Railways and Traction [manuscript-title on page one]. Milwaukee Chicago, St....](/pictures/thumb/7376_1.jpg?v=1672951096)
An impressive and apparently unique photographically-illustrated shop manual relating to the early phase of electrification of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, supplemented with eight illustrated electric railway parts catalogs published by General Electric Co. between 1914 and 1920. This manual includes photos and illustrations of locomotives, rail lines.....
![Item #4607 [A mammoth album of circus photographs]. James V. Chloupek, compiler](/pictures/thumb/4607_1.jpg?v=1560463873)
An extraordinary album of over 1000 extensively captioned photographs evidently compiled by circus devotee, collector, and amateur photographer James Chloupek or someone close to him, chronicling the American circus scene in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly around the time of World War II. This remarkable album captures.....
First edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn’s celebrated volume of highly evocative photogravures of authors and artists. Coburn’s work as a portrait photographer was initially spurred in 1904 by Perriton Maxwell, editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, who—“Out of the kindness of his heart, or, perhaps, more to get rid of me.....
![Item #6991 John Marin, Cape Split, [Maine,] ‘51. George Daniell, photographer](/pictures/thumb/6991_1.jpg?v=1628195425)
A beautiful example of this remarkable photograph of modernist painter John Marin (1870-1953) on the porch of his summer cottage at Cape Split, Maine, taken by Daniell in 1951, just two years before Marin’s death. George Daniell (1911-2002) was born in Yonkers, New York, studied painting at Yale and the.....
A rare image of collector and lecturer G. G. Inman who toured the U.S. exhibiting his collection of Native American art and artifacts. Born in Illinois, G. G. Inman (1865–?) moved with his father to Indian Territory south of Fort Dodge, Kansas in 1880, and appears to have lived most.....
An unusually decorative and lively photo album documenting the recreational and romantic life of a group of central Illinois friends in the early 20th Century. This album is striking for its attractive, neatly accomplished manuscript captions and illuminations—with cobwebs and other patterns and devices—in white ink, enhancing a lively.....