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...
Discovery image. Signed Lewis R. (Ransome) Freeman / Pasadena California paid on August 19, 1913 by Brown Brothers NYC. Freeman was a gentleman traveler and photo journalist who ran the gambit from Geological...
Scarce and poignant. When read closely, these are a seldom captured portrait of American womanhood and then in comparison between two parallel cultures. One woman much more in control of this low budget photo shoot...
Reminiscent of Hamblin Prior School. A meta-antique. Well executed oil painting portraits captured professionally by an early photographer, with revenue stamp. Nice condition w/ good contrast and fine detail. Measure 2 3/8 x 3...
Mt Olivet Fresh Pond Crematory & Columbarium (Mausoleum) / United States Cremation Company Ltd spanning 1896-1900 including progressive environmentalist arguments against chemical and decomposition seepage into public drinking water. ___ Includes: (3) Bound Pamphlets: Modern...
A significant image, the painstaking intent to erase speaks volumes. The following measures have been taken to obfuscate any hint of the Reconstruction Era nurse beyond any I've ever seen employed in a 'Hidden Mother'. ...
Few landmarks are so memorable as this one, a neon JESUS SAVES sign beaconing the downtrodden for over a century. The famous preacher Billy Sunday claimed this place as his savior. Two printed photographs inside....
Reminiscent of Darger’s Vivian Girls had they grown up to be JFK era society women. This appears to be the personal expression of an Eastern Pennsylvania socialite, with significant themes of societal pressures, introspective moods...