Strong images that have remarkably survived together. One, a very purposeful view with the doll and the companion image captures how familiar and loved the object was to this child. Signed J.H. Lamson...
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...
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...
Striking composition. Integrated Caucasian, African American, Native American and Mexican children in various states of dress (and enthusiasm) outside a well appointed school house. Signed Wesner / 120 N. Spring St. Los Angeles California. ...
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)...
Exceptional collision of energy, historic import and composition. Identified reverse “General Garcia Funeral celebrations.” García’s family had been fighting for independence and abolition since the beginning of the 19thc first in Venezuela and then Cuba....
Ilya Repin (a Ukrainian born realist painter who used his position in the European arts to elevate Russia on the international stage) completed this barefoot portrait of his friend in 1901 from a visit to...
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".
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.
The influence or forced Western integration exerted here by a New Mexico boarding school contemporary to Carlisle Indian School is obvious. Both children wear cotton clothing (the girl high button Victorian boots) rather awkwardly...