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.....
![Item #7377 [Album of Prescott, Arizona mining photos and postcards.]. Kaelin Family Signis Kaelin](/pictures/thumb/7377_1.jpg?v=1648593084)
An engaging album of photos and postcards documenting the activities of a community of Swiss immigrant miners in Prescott, Arizona. In 1912, the newly established state of Arizona supported some 445 active mines, seventy-two concentrating facilities, and eleven smelters. This album documents the activities of a group of Swiss immigrants.....
![Item #5853 The Log Book of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club 1934. [cover-title]: Cavern and Fell...](/pictures/thumb/5853_1.jpg?v=1591046230)
A very fine and unusual typescript journal of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club of Yorkshire, including typescript accounts of spelunking adventures and sixteen striking original photographs. This remarkable journal consists of lists of the officers of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club (est. 1928); a list of over a......
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.....
![Item #7581 [Jefferson Davis in a dress.]. John W. Storrs, photog](/pictures/thumb/7581_1.jpg?v=1672958884)
Apparently published shortly after Jefferson Davis’s arrest, this image shows the former president of the Confederacy neatly seated in a dress and shawl, the wide ribbon of his flowery bonnet tied in a large bow under his chin and a book held in his lap. This image was made by.....
A rare photographically-illustrated book produced by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. documenting railroad-themed floats the company created for a parade in Philadelphia celebrating the centennial of the U. S. Constitution. The floats include nine images of the company’s modern railroad cars, as well as miniature locomotive and rail cars, individuals recreating.....
A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway. This turn of the century photo, likely taken on the weekend, captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar (built in the 1890s), showing men, women, and children sitting on benches.....
![Item #7362 [Hydraulic mining in French Corral, Nevada County, California]. Thomas Houseworth,...](/pictures/thumb/7362_1.jpg?v=1659358749)
A fine Houseworth stereoview showing three hydraulic miners at work in Nevada County, California. The French Corral District is located in northwest Nevada County some nine miles northwest of Nevada City. The mining camp of French Corral was the first of many camps to be created along San Juan Ridge.....
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 #7062 [Glacier National Park photo album]. Unknown compiler, postcard photographer T. J....](/pictures/thumb/7062_1.jpg?v=1630879084)
An impressive Glacier National Park photo album, apparently compiled by a woman during a visit in the 1920s, providing ample documentation of the park’s extraordinary natural beauty and early buildings, as well as the compiler’s peregrinations, various companions, people encountered along the way, etc. Mounted at the beginning of the.....
![Item #5607 “Buffalo Bill,” (Hon. W. F. Cody). [Cabinet Card]. Henry Van der Weyde, photog](/pictures/thumb/5607_1.jpg?v=1658673843)
A handsome cabinet card portrait of Buffalo Bill by a notable English photographer. Posed in a studio setting against a painted landscape backdrop, the famed wild west showman wears his trademark buckskin jacket, sports an unusually large belt buckle, and holds a riding crop. This is one of at least.....
A scarce and vivid photographic portrait of Calcutta as seen through the eyes of an American G.I. photojournalist from Texas at the close of World War II. A member of the Houston Press before the war, Clyde Waddell served as personal photographer to Lord Mountbatten from 1943 to 1945. He.....
![Item #6033 [Lot of Leadville, Colorado silver-mining boom cabinet cards.]. G. D. Wakely,...](/pictures/thumb/6033_1.jpg?v=1595366644)
A lot of four cabinet cards capturing the burgeoning town of Leadville, Colorado at the zenith of the silver-mining boom in the area, featuring an image of the Grant Smelter. Leadville was founded in 1877 by mine-owners Horace Tabor and August Meyer amid the Colorado Silver Boom, which came.....
![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.....
![Item #7543 “W[illiam]. A. White Artist Raton New Mexico.” [Five photographs of the...](/pictures/thumb/7543_1.jpg?v=1658420765)
A lively and evocative group of five images showing the events of San Geronimo Day at Taos Pueblo by the western photographer William A. White, who was active in both New Mexico and Colorado. On 29 and 30 September, Taos Pueblo—the ancient settlement of the Taos-speaking Puebloan people—celebrates the Pueblo’s.....
A substantive archive of 147 photographs of Alaska primarily documenting the Alaska-Gastineau Mine and the historic construction of the Salmon Creek Dam, built by the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. to supply electricity to its mining operations. These images are from the collection of mining engineer Bartlett L. Thane (1877–1927), who pioneered.....
An album vividly documenting three Oregon mining operations in which the compiler, a St. Louis photographer and businessman, owned stakes, with detailed annotations. This album documents two trips to Oregon undertaken in May and Oct. 1908 by J. Fred Woltz of St. Louis, Missouri, a man of perhaps sixty who.....
![Item #5995 [An African American chef with fowl.]. Wuttge’s Photo Studio](/pictures/thumb/5995_1.jpg?v=1589378884)
A photograph of an African American chef or kitchen worker in New York, posed in a studio setting with a pair of what appear to be pheasants or perhaps some other fowl. He holds a knife in one hand which rests on a bird lying atop a pedestal, while holding.....
Four striking photos of the Nantucket scene in the early 1880s. These evocative photos show “Nantucket Harbor,” with the steamer Monohansett in the background and catboats in the foreground; “Brant Point Light,” with the town behind it; two men and a woman posed on the beach with four dead sharks.....
![Item #5711 [Panama-Pacific International Exposition photo album.]. Betty Zamloch, compiler?](/pictures/thumb/5711.jpg?v=1593101021)
An extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Panama-Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair held in San Francisco for nine months (Feb.–Dec. 1915), celebrated the opening of the newly-completed Panama Canal, and was also widely perceived in the city as an opportunity to demonstrate.....