SWISS IMMIGRANT MINERS
IN ARIZONA TERRITORY, 1900s–1910s

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.....

NEW YORK’S 8TH INFANTRY REGIMENT
DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898

An extensive portrait of New York’s 8th Infantry Regiment while stationed at Camp Thomas in Chickamauga National Military Park, Georgia during the Spanish-American War, including many lively scenes, as recorded by well-connected officer Captain Charles P. Staubach. The 8th was one of twelve New York National Guard infantry regiments federalized.....

MAMMOTH PLATE PHOTO
OF SANTA BARBARA BEACH
ADVERTISING THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

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.....

PANORAMIC IMAGE OF A BLACK NAVY COMPANY
AT THE NAVAL TRAINING STATION
GREAT LAKES IN ILLINOIS, 1944

A striking World War II-era photograph showing some 144 African American Navy servicemen of Company 401 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan in Illinois. The company is shown here standing in front of a building bearing the number 1608, and in the front row is a......

AN AMPLE AND EARLY
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK PHOTO ALBUM

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.....

A TEXAS G.I. PHOTOJOURNALIST IN CALCUTTA

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.....

HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLASS ALBUM, 1872,
WITH OVER 200 PHOTOS

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.....

A HARVARD CLASS ALBUM
WITH IMPORTANT EARLY PAPER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN WHIPPLE

The first photographically-illustrated Harvard class album to include outdoor views, and an important example of early American paper photography. Photographs were first used to illustrate Harvard class albums beginning with the class of 1852. Boston photographer John Whipple, the official Harvard class photographer from 1852 to 1859, made daguerreotypes of.....

AN ENGAGING ALBUM
DOCUMENTING THE LIFE OF A TEENAGE GIRL, 1917–1927
WITH AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTENT

A delightfully vivid vernacular photo album depicting ten years of summer camps, college, vacations, and outings—in Maine, Cape Cod, Montana, and elsewhere—of a girl and her family from White Plains, New York. The album also includes a number of striking photos relating to aerial photography and naval aviation in 1926.....

EVOCATIVE OREGON MINING SCENE
PHOTO ALBUM, 1908

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.....

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHEF IN NEW YORK

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.....