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Cabinet Card Photograph of American Servicemen
by Barretto, E. M.
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- Used - Very good
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- [late 19th century]
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$120.00
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Manila, Philippines: Centro Artístico Fotográfico, [late 19th century]. Very good. This is a cabinet card portrait of eight US army soldiers probably taken about the turn of the 20th century during the Spanish American war (the US occupied Manila in 1898). The well-composed albumen print is on a card mount with the Centro Artístico Fotográfico logo and "Manila"… Read more about this item Item Price
$120.00
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Collection of Six CDVs of Afro-Brazilians by an Early Commercial Photographer in Brazil
by [Brazil] Gaensly, Wilhelm (Guilherme)
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- Used
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- 1890
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$3,900.00
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Photographia do Commercio, 1890. A group of six carte-de-visite format albumen prints, likely dating from the 1890s. The subjects are all Afro-Brazilians posed standing with their right arm resting on a piece of furniture (a table, a chair, a pedestal). Five of the six images have printed backs identifying them as originating from Photographia do… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,900.00
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Five Cyanotypes Views of Lake Worth and the Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1895
by [Florida]
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- Used
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- 1895
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$720.00
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1895. Five views of Lake Worth Beach and Palm Beach in 1895.
The images are:
1) Ferry at Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.14.95";
2) Lake Worth with the Royal Poinciana Hotel in the distance. Captioned in the negative, "L.W.B. 9.24.95";
3) View of Lake Worth with… Read more about this item Item Price
$720.00
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UPRR Photograph Car CDV
by Silvis, J. B. [John]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1880
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$36.00
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1880. Ephemera. Very good. From 1870 to 1882, John Silvis operated the Union Pacific Railroad Photograph Car, a traveling photo studio built in a train car. The most desireable images, like this one, have an illustration of the UPRR photograph car on the back (verso) of the mount.
This CDV is mounted with an albumen photograph… Read more about this item Item Price
$36.00
Photograph of the Seattle Docks
by Martin, F. F.
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1907
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,020.00
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West Seattle, WA: F. F. Martin, 1907. Ephemera. Very good. Photograph of Asian and Anglo men apparently involved in fish processing in West Seattle, Washington.
The photograph measures 8 by 6-1/4 inches on a larger (9 by 11 inches) dark gray mount with the photographer's ink stamp in the upper left corner, "F. F. Martin | West… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,020.00
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Portrait of Bob Bondurant [Original Photograph]
by Alexander, Jesse
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- Used
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- 2000
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$4,800.00
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2000. A large (13-1/4 by 20 inches) gelatin silver print (black-and-white) photograph of the American racing legend Bob Bondurant (1933-2021), taken in 1965 by one of the great racing photographers of all time, Jesse Alexander. Bondurant reclines in the cockpit of a Carroll Shelby GT40 at Le Mans; he didn't finish the race but that year he did win… Read more about this item Item Price
$4,800.00
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Cabinet Card Portrait of Sojourner Truth
by [Truth, Sojourner] Randall, Corydon C. (photographer)
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1881
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$15,000.00
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Detroit: Randall, Photographer, 1881. Ephemera. Very good. A full-length cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth with the caption, "I sell the shadow to support the substance." This is one of Truth's last portraits, taken when she was in her eighties and purchased in bulk to sell at events, hence the caption. During the Civil War, Truth took the… Read more about this item Item Price
$15,000.00
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Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui [Mounted Photograph]
by [Quesada y Aróstegui, Gonzalo de]
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1900
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$300.00
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1900. Ephemera. Very good. A mounted half-length portrait photograph of Cuban independence leader Gonzalo de Quesada (1868-1915).
Quesada came to the US with his parents as a boy. He grew up in New York City, obtained a law degree from New York University, and became friends with José Martí. With Martí he advocated for Cuban independence… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
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[Candid Photograph, Signed]
by Lorde, Audre
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- Used
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- 1980
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$600.00
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1980. An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934-1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."
The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde."
Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper, with the image slightly smaller. The… Read more about this item Item Price
$600.00
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Cotton Sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sell little, buy little
by Lange, Dorothea
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- Used - Fine
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- 1980
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- Photograph
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,500.00
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
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Plantation Owner. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi (Plantation Owner and His Field Hands)
by Lange, Dorothea
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1980
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- Photograph
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,800.00
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. In this widely reproduced Lange image, a bulky white man appears to hold court while standing with one foot on the bumper of a car; five thin black men sit and stand behind him on the steps of a clapboard store. In the years immediately after she made the negative,… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,800.00
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El Capitan, Yosemite [Imperial Plate]
by Watkins, Carleton
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Published
- 1880
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$3,000.00
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[San Francisco]: [Probably Taber Photo], 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the El Capitan, one of the best-known rock formations in the Yosemite Valley. Watkins made at least five mammoth-plate images from this vantage point over a period of at least 20 years.
Watkins took this image between 1878… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,000.00
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On the Road to Yosemite Fall [Imperial Plate]
by Watkins, Carleton
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- Used - Near fine
- Published
- 1880
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,800.00
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[San Francisco]: [Probably Taber Photo], 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image "made on the path leading from Hutchings's Upper House hotel to his residence a few hundred yards north of the hotel, north of present-day Sentinel Bridge," Naef and Hult-Lewis, p. 90.
Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,800.00
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A 62. Section of the "Grizzly Giant," 33 feet diameter, Mariposa Grove, Cal. [Imperial Plate]
by Watkins, Carleton
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Published
- 1880
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,800.00
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San Francisco: Taber Photo, 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) portrait of Galen Clark holding a rifle and standing in front of one of the first famous trees from the Yosemite area. Watkins took this image in 1865 or 1866, during one of his extended trips to Yosemite. It was printed by Isaiah… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,800.00
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The Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley [Imperial Plate]
by Watkins, Carleton
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- Used - Near fine
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- 1880
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,200.00
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[San Francisco]: [Probably Taber Photo], 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the Three Brothers mountains with the Merced River in the foreground. Watkins returned to this spot over and over and made many photographs from this vantage point.
Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It may have been… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,200.00
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Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California (Filipinos working lettuce fields, Salinas, CA 1935)
by Lange, Dorothea
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- Used - Fine
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- 1980
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- Photograph
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$360.00
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. A copy print, made from a photograph of the original print (see below).
In this Lange image, six people wearing long shirts and hats are bent over at the waist tending to rows of lettuce. A dried and cracked furrow fills the left foreground. Lange took this image while… Read more about this item Item Price
$360.00
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Spokane Indian Camp, Spokane, W'n. [Photograph]
by Libby, C. A. [Charles]
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1910
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$180.00
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Spokane, WA: C. A. Libby, 1910. Ephemera. Very good. An image of two tepees in a forested setting, presumably outside of Spokane, Washington. The tepees are assembled from wooden poles wrapped with a variety of blankets and other large pieces of cloth. This image probably depicts a camp of members of the Spokane tribe.
Charles Libby opened… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
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Amelia E. Barr [Cabinet Card Photograph]
by Dana, Edward C. (photographer)
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- Used - Very good
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- 1895
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$150.00
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New York: Dana, 1895. Ephemera. Very good. A head-and-shoulder's portrait of the novelist Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919), the author of some 80 books in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Barr, née Huddleston, was born in Lancashire, England, and emigrated to the US in 1853. Her first novel was published in 1872.
Image, roughly 4… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vicious, Delicious, and Ambitious: 20th Century Women Artists
by Cullison, Sherri [Suzanne Chorna Williams]
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2002
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780764316340
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$150.00
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Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book devoted to 19 women Lowbrow artists.
160 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by one of the contributors, Suzanne Chorna Williams, who is really more of an abstract and conceptual artist than a Lowbrow… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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Rolph's Shipyard Near Eureka Cal. [Two Original Photos]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
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- 1918
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$180.00
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[Fairhaven, CA]: [Rolph's Shipyard], 1918. Ephemera. Very good. A pair of photographs of wooden-hulled ships, probably barkentines, under construction at Rolph's Shipyard in Fairhaven, on the Samoa penninsula across Humboldt Bay from Eureka, California.
The shipyard at Fairhaven was founded by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish shipbuilder, in 1869. He built about a hundred large vessels there… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
