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.....
![Item #8895 [Zulu woman and child.]. Charles Eisenmann, photog](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8895_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737029824)
A scarce Eisenmann carte-de-visite photograph showing a Zulu woman and child and capitalizing on American fascination with Zulus following the death of Prince Napoleon and capture of King Cetshwayo in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. This photograph shows a young woman wearing beads and a knee-length, belted fur dress. One.....
A sweet photo of a handsome Black boy on a donkey, intended to riff on a popular comic trope, although we find no trace of humor in the image. North Carolina photographer Thomas Lindsey included this photo in the “Character and Comic” section of his Western North Carolina views: “In.....
![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.....