May 27, 2023 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
Circa 1880s large photo album filled with (47) original albumen prints – most hand-colored – of Japanese scenes by photographers Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) and Felice Beato (1832-1909). Kimbei worked as a colorist early in his career. Subjects include...
May 27, 2023 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
Large collection of 19th century materials related to the Roundy family of Paw Paw, Michigan, with participants in the Union cause of the Civil War. Highlights include a personal 1862 diary detailing wounds and activities following the battle at Williamsburg, and CDV...
May 27, 2023 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
Wonderfully stylized image by famed German poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein. Hohlwein creates a spectacular nighttime scene to promote the first International Import Fair held in Frankfurt following World War I. A train, seen from below, crosses a bridge and drops flyers...
Dec 3, 2022 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
Rare antique advertising cabinet card of a salesman posing with a sign, “Big Bargains in Clothing and Furnishing Goods Sold on the European Plan at Joe Levy’s 282 East 7th St.”. Photographed by O.C. Burdick, St Paul, Minnesota. Many antique cabinet cards...
Dec 3, 2022 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
A rare early portrait cabinet card portrait of author Mark Twain photographed Burlock of Philadelphia, c1872. Verso is stamped H. E. Siddall & Co Art Book Store and Circulating Library. Mark Twain is photographed here circa 1872, aged 37. During this period,...
Dec 3, 2022 | SOLD!, SOLD! Photography
This small, oval-shaped blue velvet cased daguerreotype pictures a handsome Union Army officer dating to the Civil War period. It measures just 2.5” x 2” inches. Unfortunately, like so many daguerreotype portraits from the 19th century, this gentleman is unidentified....