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Three volumes: THE NEGATIVE (Basic Photo 2); THE PRINT (Basic Photo 3); ARTIFICIAL-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY (Basic Photo 5) NY Morgan and Lester 1952-68 passim., 1952. Hardcover. Very good condition in somewhat worn dust jackets. 9.25" x 6" pp:120;120;116 Here are three of the five titles in Ansel Adams's Basic Photo series, offered at a bargain price. Illustrated by Ansel Adams photo-illus. misc printings edition. Binding is orig boards. (more information)
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$20.00
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Original sepiatone photograph, 6" x 8" (mounted to 10" x 12"), showing a production line of female workers at sewing machines 1890. not bound. Very Good. This manufacturing scene in a spartan factory shows the female operators and attendants at work, with male supervisor watching. 10" x 12". (more information)
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$35.00
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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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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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FIFTY DOLLARS A WEEK WITH CAR AND CAMERA ... a delightful out-of-doors occupation for the amateur with his camera Boston R. Snyder (1926)., 1926. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 7.5" x 5" 99pp Offers instructions to "any young man or woman who can take average good photographs with a simple hand camera, who can make prints from photographic negatives, who can follow my easy selling methods" to make "a very nice little income" by traveling around and taking photos of people's homes and then selling the pictures to the homeowners. Illustrated by 10 plates from photographs. 4th printing edition. Binding is cloth/boards. (more information)
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$40.00
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ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE JAZZ FLUTIST, INSCRIBED & SIGNED 1955. not bound. Very Good. Original b&w photograph, framed and glazed. Horn is in a dark suit, white shirt and tie, holding his flute. Written in blue ink along the side: "To Tony--With warm regards and good wishes always--Paul Horn." Horn also played alto sax and clarinet, and composed music. 10" x 8". (more information)
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Original photographic cabinet card of a woman ("Mrs. Kenney - Evangelist") in elegant dress, holding a prayerbook or hymnal
Philadelphia, 1890. not bound. Very Good. Full-length portrait, mounted on photographer's card. On the verso is printed: "H.B. Hansbury, Artist in Photography, Successor to O.B. DeMorat, 914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia." Written at top in pencil: "Mrs. Kenney-Evangelist". She wears a long, dark dress with leg o' mutton sleeves and a large bow in her upswept hair, holding an open book. [Provenance: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]. 6.5" x 4.5". (more information)
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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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OUT OF THE FORTIES
Austin, TX: Monthly Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 149pp; illus throughout from WWII Homefront pictures by some of America's greatest photographers; connective text. 10.25" x 10". (more information)
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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1944. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 30pp; approx 200 illus from photographs. Besides Sandburg's text on "The Face of Lincoln" and 100 photographs of Lincoln, this work includes another 100 photographs of those around him. 9.5" x 6.25". (more information)
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$50.00
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NEW YORK STATE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME, BATH, N.Y.: Photo-Gravures
Brooklyn, NY: A. Wittemann, 1904. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illus from Photographs. Comprises a brief history of the elaborate Home and 16 photo-gravure views printed by the Albertype Co. of Brooklyn. Paper covers with engraved picture and title on front, ribbon-tied spine. 5.25" x 7.25". (more information)
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$25.00
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NEW YORK STATE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME, BATH, N.Y.: Photo-Gravures
Brooklyn, NY: A. Wittemann, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus from Photographs. Comprises a brief history of the elaborate Home and 25 photo-gravure views printed by the Albertype Co. of Brooklyn. Bound in textured paper over boards, cover title stamped in silver, ribbon-tied spine. (This book was also issued in paper covers, containing 16 views.) 5.25" x 7.25". (more information)
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$35.00
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NIGHTS IN BIRDLAND: Jazz Photographs, 1954-1960. With an Essay by Jack Kerouac
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 2nd printing. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Illus from Photographs. 125pp; illus throughout from photographs. Includes Kerouac's 1959 "Escapade" piece, "The Beginning of Bop," along with many Carole Reiff photos of jazz performers. 10.75" x 8..5". (more information)
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CARSON ROBISON AND THE BUCKAROOS: Studio portrait
not bound. Very Good. W.E.C. Haussler, photographer. Professional photograph, circa 1940. Signed in the negative: "Howdy! Carson Robison and The Buckaroos." This photo is accompanied by another 8x10 photo-portrait of an unidentified group of 8 performers in cowboy garb. 10" x 8". (more information)
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$15.00
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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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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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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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ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE JAZZ SAXOPHONIST, INSCRIBED & SIGNED
1955. not bound. Very Good. Original b&w photograph, frame and glazed. Woods in dark slacks and turtleneck sweater sits in a stairwell, eyes closed, playing his alto sax. Written in blue ink at bottom: "Tony--My very Best, Phil Woods." Swiss critic Peter Ruedi called Woods "the most complete alto player in today's jazz." NOTE: The actual image is much sharper than the scan shows. 10" x 8". (more information)
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$60.00
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