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 came.....
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.....
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 photographic.....
A rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-known photographer who worked among the Assiniboine and Sioux, comprising eight striking studio portraits of chiefs and braves, as well as one full-length portrait and six group shots taken in the field. S. W. Ormsby (American, active ca. 1900) maintained a......
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.....
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 #7551 [Signed cabinet card portrait of Millie-Christine.]. photog Wendt, Frank](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7551_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673285983)
A photo of the celebrated conjoined twins Millie-Christine shown here aged about thirty-five, the two dressed and styled identically, signed by the sisters in ink on the verso in the same hand seen in other known examples. Wearing striped dresses, jewelry, pointed shoes and coifed hair, the two sisters stand.....
![Item #7889 Harvard College Class of 1854 [cover title]. John Whipple, photographer](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7889_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681154770)
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.....
![Item #5711 [Panama-Pacific International Exposition photo album.]. Betty Zamloch, compiler?](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5711.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576100659)
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.....