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Two cabinet cards of little girls in period clothing
Wilmington, DE: A.P. Beecher, Photographer, 1890. not bound. Very Good. These are full-length studio portraits. The little girls (4 or 5 years old) are posed, each resting an arm on a table covered in tapestry cloth, flanked by a drapery. One wears a dress with leg o'mutton sleeves and inset bodice; her blonde hair is done in bangs with a side curl. The other girl wears a sombre dark dress and headpiece; her dark hair is curly and she carries a basket. Quite charming. 6.5" x 4.25". (more information)
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$20.00
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Untitled sepiatone photograph, showing 14 young women and three elders in Victorian-era "Sunday best" clothing, at cabin door
New York State, 1894. not bound. Very Good. Image is 6" x 8". The pleasant-looking group is posed in front of a cabin with board-and-batten roof and striped curtains used as a door. The date appears on a broadside of "Rules" which is posted on the front of cabin #42. Some of the women wear gold bands on their fingers. 9" x 11". (more information)
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$25.00
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Group of three professional cabinet photos showing two girls and a boy in their Roman Catholic Confirmation outfits, ca. 1890s
Lancaster, PA. not bound. Fine. The Victorian furniture, decorative table coverings, and attire worn by the kids suggest American immigrant backgrounds. The photographs are by: A.M. Lease, 22 N. Queen St., Lancaster, PA; Dengler's Studio, 14 So. Queen St., Lancaster; and Saylor of Lancaster. 6.5" x 4.25". (more information)
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$25.00
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Original sepiatone cabinet-card photograph of a fireman in uniform, wearing badge and hat of Franklin Fire Co. #1
Chester, PA, 1885. not bound. Very Good. J. Jeanes. Mounted on gilt-stamped photo-mount with name of J. Jeanes, Photographer, 702 Edgemont Avenue, Chester, Pennsylvania. 5.5" x 4". (more information)
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$25.00
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Album of original photographs, cover title: SIX MONTHS IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN...on back cover: WINTER OF '95-6
Goshen, NY, 1896. Softcover. Good. Some photographs are fading with age, although details remain. Contains 18 photographs on nine card mounts: most of the photographs are 4.25" x 6.5"; some are smaller. Most are sepiatones; the two at front are bluetones. Subjects include: a man as a child with a straw hat, then later as an adult with a hat, tie, and Maltese Cross; a farmhouse with five folks in meeting clothes outside the front door; a bungalow or one-room schoolhouse; wagon ruts along a stream after a snowfall; three men and three women on the entry porch of a frame house; a frozen stream flanked by trees; a 2-1/2-story farmhouse with attached stable; a winter scene of a barn and long lines of picket fences; nine 1.5" x 2" snapshots of roughhewn timbers, a man with a dog, a horse and open cart, outbuildings, and various people. The cover title is embellished with small sketches of a handbell and a picnic basket. 6.75" x 9.75". (more information)
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$50.00
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CARE AND OPERATION OF THE KEYSTONE MOVIE CAMERA, MODEL A-7 [with] CARE AND OPERATION OF THE KEYSTONE PROJECTOR, MODEL A-75 Boston: Keystone, 1936. First Editions. Soft cover. Very Good. Two volumes, pp: 29+ 22; text illus from photographs. These booklets contain detailed instructions for the use and care of home-movie cameras and projectors prior to World War II. 6" x 4". (more information)
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$20.00
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KODAK MILESTONES
Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Co., 1971. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. (28)pp; photo-illus throughout text. Chronological highlights, from George Eastman's gelatine dry plates in 1878 through the Presidential "E Star" award in 1971. 9" x 6". (more information)
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$10.00
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Group of two cartes de visite and one cabinet card, all by photographers of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster, PA, 1880. not bound. Very Good. Three photographs, mounted as cabinet cards. One shows two children in period dress, one seated in an elaborate Victorian-era chair, the other standing. The others show a man in suit and bow-tie, and a woman in white collar, earrings, a medal on a chain, and roses at her neck (identified on verso as "Grandma Eshbach"). The kids on the cabinet card are named on the back as "Brother Harry Eshbach" and "Sister Grace Eshbach". The photographers are: Hubley, 45 West King St.; Cummings, No. 6 North Queen St.; and B. Frank Saylor, 42 West King St.--all of Lancaster. various sizes. (more information)
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$20.00
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FIFTH ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE...HOTEL COMMODORE, 1934 NY: Press Photographers Assn, 1934. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 31pp; cartoons, illus from photographs. This programme has many drawings by syndicated cartoonists, satirizing the press photographers and wishing them well. Also included are: a "Best Wishes" ad by Artie McGovern and Babe Ruth; ocean-liner ads; a long tribute in verse by William Rose Benet; a tongue-in-cheek tribute by Art Arthur; a column on press photographers by John Chapman; etc. 11" x 7.75". (more information)
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$20.00
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Original tinted photograph of a WWII sailor and a soldier, flanking a woman in "jitterbug" garb of the day, all seated at a table Keansburg, NJ, 1945. not bound. Very Good. In the original matte with printed cover: "Jerry Sheehan's.Dining and Dancing.Floor Shows Nitely.`Showplace of the Jersey Shore'.Keansburg, NJ." 6.5" x 8.5". (more information)
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$20.00
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VIEWS OF CORNELL Ithaca, NY: S.L. Sheldon, 1905. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. Sheldon, photographer. 32 plates from photographs, printed on rectos only. 6" x 8". (more information)
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$25.00
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WASHINGTON ALBUM
Washington: J.F. Jarvis, 1887. First Edition. Decorative cloth. Very Good. Accordion folds neatly reinforced on versos. 18 panels, interior and exterior photographic views showing 19th-century sights and buildings in the US Capital. 6" x 9.5". (more information)
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$25.00
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WLS NATIONAL BARN DANCE CAST: photograph
Chicago: Station WLS, 1944. not bound. Very Good. Framed and glazed. The photograph is dated October 1944, and on the back are facsimile signatures of the dozens of performers, including: Arkie, the Arkansaw Woodchopper; The Sunbonnet Girls; Slim Sloan; Hoosier Hot Shots; Rene Favre; Lavell Carter; and many others. The National Barn Dance, which had debuted on WLS in 1924, performed at state fairs around the midwest during World War II, "when the price of admission was simply rubber or scrap metal to help the war effort. In 1944, Paramount Pictures made a movie about the NBD, featuring a host of the WLS stars," whose signature are reproduced on the back of this photo. [See www.wls.history.com for more on the National Barn Dance, including an image of the grou photo offered here.] This one is under glass in an old wooden frame with gilt beading. 8" x 10". (more information)
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$50.00
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Cabinet card, ca. 1880s, 5-1/2" x 4" sepiatone image by F.G. Smith, Photographer, on stiff photo-mount with serrated edges 1885. not bound. Fine. Shows a woman in period-style riding habit with crop, mounted on a white-faced horse in a parklike setting of rocks and trees. 6.5" x 4.25". (more information)
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$15.00
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