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1860s New York American Indian Village Archeology Dig Letter
$500.00
Dated St. Pumpkin’s Day 1868 from Newark Valley New York from noted genealogist D. Williams Patterson to an early Wilkes Barre PA founder Stephen Jenkins. Interviewing elder locals and trying to piece together Indian...
1890s Child Nurse Roosevelt Hospital NYC Portrait Photo
$300.00
Outstanding caregiver portrait, barefoot girl with doll held by Julia Bowne of Roosevelt Hospital who shows in the Children’s Ward by the mid 1890s. Beautiful condition image with wear to card stock, mount measures 5.5...
1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia
$275.00
Fine dress and corsage or purse stand in stark contrast to her empty countenance. Posed against a house on stilts, this may well be the first photograph of her life. Pale blue mount measures 5.5...
1890s Hyden Kentucky Appalachian Coal & Timber Town Glass Slides (4)
$600.00
Titled 3 Generations Mountain Faces (1901), Bridge (1896), Girl Schoolers (1900) and From Hills to South (1895). Established on the Eastern Coal Region and heavy timber, the earliest of these image is only thirteen years...
1890s Integrated Native American Frontier Family Cabinet Photo
$750.00
Striking incongruity amongst her pioneer guardians, the young woman in high Victorian fashion entirely pulling focus. She is stoic and exquisitely beautiful, likely from the Chickasaw tribe. Signed Jenkins Studio in Ardmore / Indian (Oklahoma)...
1890s Span Am Military Execution Gallows w/ Buffalo Soldiers Photo
$750.00
Heart stopping. Prisoner is hooded, executioner bent tying his feet while two priests deliver last rites and a crowd of officers watch. Stationed below the gallows is a regiment that appears largely African American (American...
1896 Political Americana Grover Cleveland Broadside w/ Polish Text
$300.00
Angel presents a Polish proverb of wealth and abundance over a vignette of Columbus discovering America and fantasy Grover Cleveland & George Washington jugate. Strong red, white and blue theme printed on folded (blank interior)...
1900s CHICKEN POX Medical Quarantine Sign Disease Snapshot Photo
$400.00
Scarce reference and visually stunning. Dates to the earliest part of the 20th century. Measures 2.5 x 4.25” w/ strong silver gelatin contrast.
No condition issues.
1900s Chinese & Native American Western Integrated Social History Photo
$1,200.00
Compelling portraits of under represented cultures in the development of America's Western history.
Nice condition with only smudges at margin and minimal corner chipping.
Mount measures 5.25 x 7.25".
1900s Eagle Pass Texas Coal Mine Mexican Labor Photo
$400.00
Seldom seen photo, integrated Mexican border / Texas work crew sitting on the twentieth century.
Identified Eagle Pass Mine reverse.
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Board measures 7 3/8 x 9 3/8" with chip to top right.
1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo
$500.00
INCREDIBLE circumstance and details in the itinerant’s backdrops (photographs on the ground behind) and clothing.
Identified Beallsville PA. Mount measures 6 x 8”, very nice condition with edge wear.
1900s Photographer Artist Rejection Letter Archive
$500.00
Dating between 1900 and 1906 with two references to the engine in Niagara Falls (power station?) Sent from The Metropolitan Magazine, Wide World Magazine (London), The New York Times and Nature (London) and George...