Trinidad, Colorado: Aultman, Ca 1890. Cabinet card photo measuring 8.75 x 5.25", including mount, stamped "Aultman Trinidad Colo" to mount. An image of a Mexican Central Railway locomotive. Oliver and Otis Aultman both operated studios in Trinidad, Colorado. Otis moved to El Paso in 1907, becoming a prominent photographer of.....
Pasadena: Crandall, Circa 1890. Cabinet photo measuring 8.5 x 5.5", depicting the Mission San Gabriel in Los Angeles. Mount with photographer's stamp of C.J. Crandall & Co of Pasadena. Old clipping glued to back of photo, fading and light staining to image, lower corner chipped, wear to corners of mount.....
Fall River, Massachusetts: 1890s to 1900s. A collection of 17 photographs, including 16 cabinet cards, and one silver gelatin print. 15 of the cabinet cards, each measuring 6.75 x 4.5", are on the photographer's mounts of A.M. Estrella, Photographo, Fall River, Mass. A few of the images are captioned on.....
Otisville, New York: 1914. Nine black paper photo album leaves, containing 77 black and white photos cornered in on both sides of each leaf. Many images captioned on the backs, additional captions present on a couple of album leaves and on the fronts of a few photos. The photographs document.....
[Independence or Waco, Texas]: Ca 1880s to 1890s. Albumen photograph measuring 13.5 x 11", on larger board mount. A large group photograph of the Erisophian Literary Society, the second such society founded at Baylor University, which existed between 1853 and 1932. Literary societies at Baylor filled the role that Greek.....
Berkeley, California: 1945 to 1946. Cream string tied scrapbook binding measuring 13.5 x 12.75, with illustration of dog to front cover, containing 106 black and white photographs and 33 ephemeral items, mostly cornered in onto album leaves. The first 50 or so images are accompanied by pencil captions on the.....
American West: 1922-23. String tied photo album binding of black cloth measuring 11.25 x 7.25". Contains 129 original photographs, 74 commercially produced souvenir photos, five large format professional photos, six pictorial postcards, several pressed flowers, and a few ephemeral items. Handwritten annotations present on most leaves. Inscribed "Clara and Emil.....
Shreveport, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California: 1930s to 1950s. Brown faux leather photo album binding, 15.5 x 11.5", string tied, with black and gilt decoration, containing 191 photographs, most cornered in (a few loose), and almost all black and white (a few color). Most of images are snapshots, with five.....
Panama: 1944. String tied brown leatherette photo album binding, 13.5 x 10.5", containing 315 pasted in black and white photographs, with annotations in white ink on many of the pages. A photo album compiled by a woman employee (last name Busch) of the United States Army Air Force, who worked.....
Washington State: Circa 1905. Black photo album binding measuring 7.5 x 5", "Photographs" in gilt to front cover, containing 37 pasted in black and white photos, each 3.75" x 3.75", many accompanied by a manuscript caption on the album leaf. A photo album compiled by an unidentified young woman, documenting.....
Los Angeles: 1930s to 1940s. Screw bound black photo album binding measuring 11.25 x 7", containing 87 cornered in black and white photographs, a few accompanied by handwritten captions, namely two addresses and the advanced age of the man pictured in the album (81 years). By cross-referencing with voter registration.....
Kennecott, Alaska: 1920s. String tied photo album binding of blue and gilt cloth measuring 12 x 7.75", containing 99 cornered in, uncaptioned, black and white photographs. A photo album documenting life at the Kennecott Mines, a major mining camp in a remote corner of southeast Alaska that is today a......
California: 1951 to 1974. Photo album binding measuring 12.25 x 11.75", with name label to front cover ("Robin Tomoe Nishiyama"), containing 130 black and white and color photographs, together with 16 ephemeral items, all placed onto sticky album leaves under plastic sleeves. Most photos captioned in ink on the image.....
Los Angeles: 1990s. Photo album binding measuring 14.25 x 8.25", containing 60 uncaptioned color photos, each 6.5 x 4.25", placed into plastic sleeves. An anonymously compiled collection of images of Los Angeles graffiti art in the second half of the 1990s. We were able to identify several of the artists.....
Ely, Vermont: 1912. Black paper photograph album binding measuring 10.5 x 7.25", containing 17 photographs, including 15 pasted in 7.5 x 5.5" photos, one slightly smaller pasted in photo, and one real photo postcard laid in. A photo album depicting Camp Quinibeck, located on Lake Fairlee in Vermont. The first.....
Englewood, New Jersey: [1920s]. Photo album binding of string tied brown leather wrappers, 8.75 x 5.75", titled in gilt to front cover "The Mabel E. Manahan Sanitarium." Contains 27 pasted in sepia-toned photographs, each 5.5 x 3.5" plus margins. A photo album consisting of interior and exterior views of The.....
South Dakota and Montana: 1941. Wooden photo album binding measuring 12.5 x 8”, containing 104 b/w photographs placed into photo corners, as well as four real photo postcards. Each of the images is accompanied by a detailed caption in the margin of and/or on the back of the image. In.....
Chicago: 1923-1925. Photo album binding of suede, string tied illustrated wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5", containing 81 pasted in black and white photos, many images with annotations on the lower margins of the photos. A photo album documenting the activities of children associated with the Eli Bates House, a social settlement.....
Northfield, New Hampshire: Circa 1890. Suede album binding measuring 10.75 x 8.25", titled "Souvenir of Bay Hill" on front cover, with 14 albumen photographs within, each measuring 7 x 4.5”, each captioned in a calligraphic hand. Text block edges gilt. Wear to covers, tear at head of spine, foxing and.....
England: Hills & Saunders, 1890s. Commercially produced photograph album by the notable Hills & Saunders studio of England. Consists of 22 albumen photographs, each captioned in manuscript and measuring 8 x 6", in a blue cloth album titled "Views of Cambridge" in gilt on the front cover. A striking series.....
New Haven, Connecticut: 1868. 13 x 10.25", brown morocco with gilt, "Yale" in gilt to front cover, Yale seal and initials "S.S.S." to rear cover, brass clasps, spine divided into six compartments with gilt decorations and titles, name "F.C. Beach" to lower spine. Contains title page plus 48 albumen photographs.....
[California]: [1927]. Screw bound black cloth binding measuring 11.25 x 8.75", with "California Highway Commission" in gilt to front cover, containing mimeographed text printed to rectos of 124 leaves, illustrated with 54 pasted in real photographs, as well as 15 pages of tables and five illustration plates. A photographically illustrated.....
Routt Co, Colorado: A.G. Wallihan, Circa 1880s. Eight albumen photographs, each measuring 8 x 5", on studio mounts, all captioned in the negative, seven with additional printed information to verso ("Wallihan's Big Game, Photographs, Taken From Live Wild Game"). One photo with additional caption to verso that reads "These pictures.....