A fascinating album documenting life at several missionary stations of the Zulu branch established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Among the mission stations pictured here are Umzumbe and Inanda, both of which were home to two of the earliest.....
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.....
This photo cartoon shows Jefferson Davis in his last moments as President of the Confederate States of America. Wearing a bonnet and spur-heeled boots, Davis lifts a dagger in one hand and the voluminous folds of his dress in the other as he attempts to make a run for it.....
A handsome albumen photograph of the steamboat lighter Santiago, captained by a Philadelphia native and Galveston, Texas transplant who later operated a prominent Galveston hotel and whose cattle-king brother built the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Some eleven people are visible on the decks of the Santiago, moored to.....
Thirty-three photos documenting a mixed-race unit of U.S. soldiers, including many African Americans, on the front lines of the Korean War. The Korean War (1950–53) was the first overseas war following President Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive Order desegregating the U.S. military. Some 600,000 African Americans served, and nearly ten percent.....
An original photograph documenting Afro-Bermudian laborers packing what are likely sweet “Tenerife” onions. Shown here is a group of four men, two women, and two male children, all of African descent, posed in the act of crating onions. As harvest was underway, we can surmise that this photograph was taken.....
A fine pair of photo albums richly documenting the scene in and around Seattle at the turn of the century. The photographs in these albums fall into five principal categories: activity along Seattle’s waterfront; the city’s interior; lumber, hunting, and mining industries; artistic tomfoolery including some double-exposure spirit photographs and.....
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.....
![Item #5494 [Photo album including 1939–40 World’s Fair content.] Photographs](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5494_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713355936)
A photo album compiled by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair opened on April 30th, 1939 in Flushing Meadow, Queens. The first exposition to have a......
![Item #8987 [Photo album of World War I aviation at Carruthers Field, Texas.] Snapshots [cover title](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8987_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728583113)
An evocative photo album documenting early airforce aeronautics at Carruthers Field, a U.S. Army Air Service training base in Texas for allied Canadian and American pilots, including numerous aerial and crash scenes. In the early period of World War I, Gen. John J. Pershing proposed to the Royal Canadian Flying.....
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.....
An evocative, humorously captioned photo album documenting a spectacular and well-attended Mardi Gras festival, with views of paraders, attendees, musicians, and others, all crowded into the thriving business district of New Orleans. The photos in this album were taken between Canal Street and Dauphine Street, and in addition to showing.....
An unusual and intriguing tintype picturing a Native American woman and her Euro-American husband, presumably a trader, evidently taken somewhere in the northern plains region in the 1870s. The woman, seeming somewhat shy and set a bit further back than the man, is nevertheless striking in her full length robe.....
A cabinet card photograph of a Pike’s Peak donkey bearing a sign reading: “I Helped to Build Pikes Peak Rail!” The donkey 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.....
A scarce and appealing group of three large-format photographs picturing the town of Sierra City, California, its mining infrastructure, and a miner’s boarding house. One photo, taken from an elevated position and captioned “Sierra City, Sierra Co. Cal. 1883. Mr. Marshall was four years at the Sierra Butte’s mine,” shows.....
![Item #8326 [Photograph of a youth gospel group at practice.]. Anonymous photographer](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8326_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692305641)
A captivating image of a youth gospel group of the mid-twentieth century, apparently showing them at practice with the church pianist—a typical scene out of the fertile musical tradition of the Black church. This evocative photo, seemingly taken in a church music room, shows a woman seated at the pianoforte.....
![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover title]. L. Austin, compiler](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5864_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585666916)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a 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 cooks;.....
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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.....
A scarce photograph taken during President Grover Cleveland’s second term in office, showing First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland and the wives—and one sister—of Cleveland’s cabinet members, all formidably armed in “leg of mutton” sleeves. Mrs. Cleveland, striking in a white striped jacket amid the dark dresses of her entourage, is.....
![Item #8690 [Lot of fifty-five dramatic photos documenting the San Francisco Earthquake.]. A....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8690_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709508114)
A cache of photographs powerfully documenting the cataclysmic damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with many photos taken in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath while the fires were still burning. About half of these images are commercial photos while the other half are snapshots by an unidentified amateur photographer.....
![Item #5490 [Locomotive photo archive.] Photographs; Porte Feuille [cover-titles]. Boston,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5490_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575039983)
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 rich collection of photographs primarily by pioneering travel photographer Samuel Bourne, his partner Charles Shepherd, and Bourne & Shepherd photographer Colin Murray, taken in India, Pakistan, and Burma in the 1860s and 1870s. This group of photographs spans Samuel Bourne’s prolific seven year photography career in India and embraces.....
An unusually rich document of bank architecture and bank interiors in New England and elsewhere, evidently for the use of a firm involved in bank design. Stamps on the versos of several photos suggest that this album was compiled and owned by the General Bank Equipment Co., which at the.....
![Item #9286 [Photo lot picturing the operation of Loft’s Candy in Long Island City, and more.]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9286_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765830608)
A captivating lot of ninety photographs—nearly half of which are captioned on the verso— documenting the extensive manufacturing operation and workforce of America’s largest candy producer during the early twentieth century. Established in 1860 as a small sweet shop in Manhattan by British immigrant William Loft, the candy manufacturer Loft.....
![Item #7376 Electric Railways and Traction [manuscript-title on page one]. Milwaukee Chicago, St....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7376_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719070309)
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.....