Group portrait of a church group on lawn with church buidlings in background, perhaps a Sunday School group, with gentelman with clerical collar; no date but circa 1900; approx.9 1/2" x 12" overall size; some edge, tips wear and cracking to mount, photo in good condition.
Australia: Hydrographic Branch, Dept. Of the Navy, 1943. Chart, tinted in color; approx. 28" x 40" size; a few penciled triangulation routes & distances noted, a couple of pen notations, indicating Tambu bay and some distances around Lasanga I.; the Australian Navy Dept. published this chart of the coastline of.....
New Haven Connecticut: Beers & Mansfield. Albumen photograph Carte-de-Visite; Identified on back of mount as from the studios of Beers & Mansfield National Gallery 242 Chapel St. New Haven Connecticut; no dates or identifiers, probably mid-nineteenth century; little bit of dustiness to mount; very good condition...
New York: 1937. 3 snapshots; approx. 3 1/2" x 5", one smaller of the Bronx scene; details noted on backs; slight wear; very good condition; interesting New York City transportation history ephemeral photographs.
Bronx, New York: 1946. Large format, approx. 8" x 10"; at corner of E. 144th Street; building apparently under construction or renovation, with workers and equipment visible down the street; S.W. Farber, Inc. manufacturers of cookware and household items; typed identification on back; light edgewear; very good condition; interesting New.....
172 Fifth Ave. N.Y. & Newport, L. Alman. Photo approx. 4" x 5 1/2" + large-bordered mount; studio photographer identifiers at lower edge below photo; no date but circa 1880; with the pencil notation on back "Waring" referring to the "Stick Style" home pictured, which had been redesigned 1870-71 by.....
Nice France: ND. Nice view of Nice, harbor and surrounds from the named heights; numbered 574 & with Text identifier 'Vue Generale Prise Du Mont Boron' and ND photographer at base of image; 10 3/4" x 8 1/4" size approximate; no date but circa 1880s; St. Peter statue in bronze.....
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1958. F. 89 pages; Illustrated with surreal black and white photomontage work by photographer Val Telberg and inscribed on the dedication page "To B- B from Val Telberg Aug. 1990."; Anais Nin (1903-1977) diarist, novelist, known for abstract, introspective fiction and her compendious diaries, here.....
Wien: Franz Mörtl. Good street, shopfront scene; circa 1950; with the Oberwart, Bgld. # 18690 identifiers; Verlag Franz Mörtl, Wien XX., Gerhardusgasse 27 imprint on back; postally unused; slight wear; very good condition and interesting mid-twentieth century Austrian photographic & town history.
Interesting occupational image with crew of 4 men standing beside railway tracks, working on foundation of building, cement mixer at right; approx. 4" x 6 1/4" size; no dates or photographer noted but circa 1920; glued to old cardstock mount; light wear; very good condition interesting occupational history.
Kind of tough looking mixed-race crew, tools and construction site in background; Approx. 5" x 7" size; identifier in photo obscure except for noted date; corners creased, edgewear; a little fade towards top edge; still, good condition and interesting photographic record of a building construction crew, occupational.
New York: Underwood. Image depicts several gentlemen standing in front of a a wooden-frame oil rig, several others in background; back of mount gives a couple of paragraphs of information regarding the history of the site, more; "...Nobody began to realize the immense importance and value of such natural resources...In.....
Highland Falls, New York: The Depp Studio, 1921. A group of 5 larger-format (approx. 5" x 7") black and white professional photographs: interior view of an open log-built dining hall; woodland path and river scene; two sides of a river, hillside floral abundance, canoe in mid-ground; a view of a......
Panama Canal Zone: Not Published, 1935. F. Small black and white snapshots, glossy finish, all identified on back as "Panama Canal Zone August 1935". Thatch-covered indigenous homes on short stilts, canoes, seashore scenes. Approx. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" size overall. In very good condition.
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. F. 55 pages; black and white illustrations by Adolf Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Cy Twombly, Jean Tinguely, Raymond Mason, Lee Krasner, Joseph Cornell, John Kane, with descriptive material on each artwork in the content listings at back; written contributions by John Ashbery, Rupert Barnaby, Guy Davenport.....
France: L.P. Phot. Paris View by this photographic studio, identified at bottom as such; architecture, river traffic below bridge; photo about 8 1/2" x 11"; no date but circa 1880s; some edge, tips wear, one old hole near right edge, some rubbing; good condition overall, nice travel, historical & photographic.....
Patchogue New York. 2 photos approx. 3 1/2" square format; light wear; very good condition, interesting Patchogue New York photographic & Long Island history ephemera.
Pau France: Librairie.- Papeterie Lafon 3, Rue Henri-IV Pau Eaux-Bonnes Etablissement Thermal. Each cabinet-card size views; with Lafon, Pau credit on backs of two, all with identifiers on front; no date but circa 1880s; fairly clear images, some fading; light wear; very good condition, interesting Pau, France views.
Vienna Austria Wien: 1930. Real photo postcard of the "Parfumerie" shop-front, with the owner(?) in front; approx. 3 1/4"" x 5 1/2" size; with no photographic studio name on back, only the numbering 'D07516'; postally unused; with the ink information on the subject on the back and some later pencil.....
New York: Knapp Co., 1885. While publicizing the images as 'photographic', under examination they are printed according to a lithographic process on a glossy paper stock in deep sepia tones, clearly made to closely resemble and compete with the much-admired photographs of Carleton Watkins and others who had popularized Western.....
Montreal, Canada: Martin, Photographist Montreal, 1863. F. Carte-de-visite photograph of Thomas Guthrie (1803 - 1873) Free Church of Scotland minister and philanthropist, dedicated especially to the "Ragged schools" - charitable organisations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th-century Britain - "...His style was not informed by theological.....
Jamaica, West Indies: Not Published, 1885. F. Group of 6 photographs, all uniformly mounted on gilt-edged cardstock; scenes from Jamaica, including and titled on back of mounts as: "Native hut" (thatched huts, women & children, livestock); "Natives" (women carrying baskets, crossing river); "View" (palms, forest clearing) and another view, apparently.....
New York, NY: Sarony, 1870. F. Carte-de-Visite Photograph Portrait of John Adams Dix, (1798 - 1879) Union Civil War general & New York governor, who famously as the war between the states began, "...galvanized northern opinion by ordering New Orleans officials to instantly shoot anyone lowering the American flag...a War.....
Egypt: Antoine Beato, 1870. F. Twenty-seven (27) original photographs of Egypt, with carefully handwritten descriptions below each plate; photographed by Antoine Beato; (8) of the images have his signature in the plate. Large format, photo size approx. 10 ¼" x 15" (26.25 x 38 cm); the mounts 14" x 18".....
Paris, France: A. Sobaux, 1865. F. Carte-de-visite photograph of four portraits of the mothers of the 4 Napoleons of France; with the A. Sobaux Photographe, Brevete S.G.D.G. Rue de l'Arbre-sec, 43, Paris studio imprint on back; the image titled & identified on front; no date, circa 1865; some light wear.....
