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San Francisco: Taber Photo, 1887. Ephemera. Fine. One of Taber's best-known images of Chinatown in San Francisco, an image of the open storefront of a Chinese shop, with three clerks standing at the front of the store (another person is seated in the background and two others peer in a side window to watch the photographer). The front… Saber más sobre este artículo

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"… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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,… Saber más sobre este artículo

[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… Saber más sobre este artículo

[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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

[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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo