Quarter-leather album, 9.5 x 12 in., containing 97 large (almost all 7" x 9" or 8" x 10") black and white photographs mounted one per side on 43 leaves, with the final photo on the rear pastedown. Most are affixed to the page at only one edge, so the backs..... Item #21338
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
Very good. Fifteen black and white photographs, of which thirteen measure 4 7/8” x 3 ¾”; the other two measure 4” x 6”. Four of the smaller size images have typed descriptions attached to them. Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest, explorer, photographer, and lecturer who did much to..... Item #21379
185 real photo postcards dating from the 1910s-1950s, showing various images of Oregon’s Breitenbush Hot Springs and Spa. Most unposted, and some with message and postmark and/or writing on the reverse. Generally very good condition. May include a few duplicates. Some of the earliest cards in the archive are 20..... Item #21254
Approximately 150 black and white photographs, almost all either 7 x 9.5 or 5 x 7 inches, showing various aspects of a 1949 archaeological expedition led by Walter Fairservis Jr. (1921-1994), then a graduate student at Harvard. About half with old (now inert) glue residue visible on the backs, most..... Item #21340
Hardcover. Very good. Large cloth album (11.5" x 14.5") containing two lithographed hand-drawn maps and 294 photographs mounted on both sides of 27 thick cardstock leaves (3 additional leaves unused). Also includes some small half-tone tourist views not included in the photo count. Some leaves loose from binding, otherwise very..... Item #21375
Very good. Original photograph, 4x5.5 inches, mounted on 6x8 inch board with decorative border and printed captions. Credited on the mount to Dexter, McKeesport, PA. Ca. 1900. Doranto was one of several actors in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regularly performed Chinese impersonations in traveling variety shows. Claiming..... Item #20785
Very good. Four photographs, 4" x 5.5" (two on 6" x 7" mounts and two on 5.25" x 6.5" mounts). A nice grouping of what we presume are amateur, unpublished images that convey some of the flavor of a stroll through the exposition grounds. Our personal favorite is a wonderful..... Item #21278
Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album..... Item #20997
[Kansas City, MO]: [Verne O. Williams, Photographer], [1911]. Flexible leather album, 8 x 11 inches (oblong), stamped in gilt on cover "National Biscuit Co's Plant / Kansas City MO. / George A. Fuller Construction Co. Builders / A.G. Zimmerman Architect." Contains 38 linen-backed gelatin silver prints, 7.25" x 9.25", many..... Item #21376
String-tied album, 10.5 x 15 inches, with photographs and ephemera mounted to both sides of 14 cardstock leaves, accompanied by additional loose photos, most dating from the 1920s. There are a total of 151 photographs, of which 71 are mounted and 80 are loose. Sizes vary, most in the range..... Item #21030
Hardcover. Very good. Green cloth photograph album (12.5" x 10.5") containing 144 photographs, mostly gelatin silver prints (a few albumen, three cyanotypes), in a wide range of sizes, with the majority in the range of 2" x 3" to 4" x 6". Approximately two-thirds of the images are captioned. A...... Item #21348
Japan Hydrogen Industry Co, Ltd. [Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan], 1947. Cloth album, 12 x 8.5 inches, containing 33 silver gelatin photographs mounted to rectos only, with printed captions in English and Japanese on facing pages. Very good. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers recognized the importance..... Item #20999
Two large photograph albums containing more than 400 photographs from a prominent sporting family in Edwardian and Interwar Britain. Members of the family played cricket and polo, raised horses, participated in fox hunting and steeplechase events, and visited the estates of similarly inclined members of their class. Major Pascoe William..... Item #20821
Seattle Light City Boundary Project, [1967]. Boundary Dam, located on the Pend Oeille River in Northeastern Washington, supplies a substantial portion of the hydroelectric power used by Seattle residents. A concrete, double-curvature arch dam rising 340 feet from bedrock, it is 740 feet long at the top, 32 feet thick..... Item #20994
Undated and uncredited albumen photograph (image size 4.75" x 7.75"), identified in a handwritten caption on the mount as Forest City, a town in Sierra County, California, where gold was discovered in 1852. Slight fading and spotting, crack in the glass negative appearing in lower left, but still a clear..... Item #19245
Hardcover. Very good. Accordion-folded album containing nine original albumen photographs of Madeira, including a four-panel panorama of Funchal. Images measure 6.5 "x 9" and are backed with linen; red cloth album measures 6.75" x 9.5" (oblong). Some fraying to boards, final photograph creased at the edge; all else very good..... Item #19770
Two large photograph albums showing rural scenes along the route of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, which was completed in 1897 and ran 754 miles from Kansas City, Missouri, to Port Arthur, Texas. Together the albums contain 97 clear, professional gelatin silver photographs, about two-thirds of which are..... Item #21343
London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1918. Softcover. good. Third edition. 5" x7.25", pp 26, [7] ads, in original cardstock wrappers, wth later cloth tape on spine. Ownership stamps on cover and title page, a few penciled brackets in the margins. Instruction on a popular style of portrait photography that "removes..... Item #15182
Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Approximately 11 x 11 inches, 67, (5) pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photographs. Signature and embossed stamp of David L. Jacobs on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Binding sound, light edgewear. Includes photographs by Joseph Deal..... Item #14764
San Francisco, CA: Camera Craft Publishing, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. 160 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, with advertisements. Inscribed "To a Young Amateur, Harry Champlin" on title page. Silght wear to edges, name on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. Dust..... Item #1876
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ix, 156 pp, with illustrations, selected bibliography, chronology, index. Fine. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear and one small (1/2 inch) tear at head of spine. This book "offers a stimulating panorama..... Item #844
Cleveland, OH: National Lamp Works of General Electric, 1927. Softcover. Good+. Bulletin 52, July 20, 1927. 64 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and a two-page spread showing the photographic rendition of colors with various emulsions, filters, and illuminants. Some soiling, moderate handling wear. Foreword: "This bulletin tells how best..... Item #15179
Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 335 pp, with illustrations, index. Light wear to edges, slight bowing to boards; text clean. This exhibition "brings together the works of fifty-seven artists, each of whom has exploited the conceptual and formal properties of the medium with great self-awareness. In..... Item #2677
Harzburg: Walther Heering Verlag, 1936. Hardcover. Good. "1st-3rd Thousand." 180 pp, primarily b/w photographic plates.S ome spotting and soiling to boards and page edges, evidence of erasure on front endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. A celebration of the Rolleiflex, with images taken with the camera by c...... Item #1929
