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1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia 1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia

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1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia

$295.00

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...
1900s Chinese & Native American Western Social History Photo 1900s Chinese & Native American Western Social History Photo

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1900s Chinese & Native American Western 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 Compelling African American Family Photo 1900s Compelling African American Family Photo

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1900s Compelling African American Family Photo

$295.00

Haunting face may be a portrait of a very young mother or sister. Victorian embossed mount measures 4.5 x 5.5", nice condition with curve. 
1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo 1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo

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1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo

$450.00

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 Texas Southwest Old Mexico Border Family Photos 1900s Texas Southwest Old Mexico Border Family Photos

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1900s Texas Southwest Old Mexico Border Family Photos

$375.00

Sight size measures 3.75 x 4.5", terribly intimate portraits.    Flaking to mounts.   
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA 1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA

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1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA

$2,000.00

Arresting 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...
1920s Coal Miners Lamps & Hunting Dogs Studio Photo 1920s Coal Miners Lamps & Hunting Dogs Studio Photo

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1920s Coal Miners Lamps & Hunting Dogs Studio Photo

$295.00

Carbide lamps and one man with a bow tie, found in Southwestern PA. ___ Blur to the animals and corner chips / slight bow to mount. Measures 9 x 11”.
1920s Outdoors Woman Camera Hand Tinted Lake Photo 1920s Outdoors Woman Camera Hand Tinted Lake Photo

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1920s Outdoors Woman Camera Hand Tinted Lake Photo

$750.00

Iconic.   Measures 7.25 x 11.25” with significant creases bottom right (corner and edge), top right edge and single puncture buried in the trees top left. Displays well.   Found in a California estate.  
1920s Progressive Woman Girl Scout Leader Sepia Portrait Photo 1920s Progressive Woman Girl Scout Leader Sepia Portrait Photo

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1920s Progressive Woman Girl Scout Leader Sepia Portrait Photo

$195.00

Absolutely textbook example. Measures 2 7/8 x 3 7/8”. Very nice condition with outstanding tones and details. Identified Hazel in pen almost like a name badge.
1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages 1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages

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1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages

$2,000.00

Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a...
1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo 1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo

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1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo

$550.00

Speaks loudly.   Captures the tension of the shop owner at register, the photographer who rather progressively for the time includes the African American customer (likely a domestic) and she with down turned eyes and folded hands who seems...
1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo 1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo

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1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo

$295.00

Collegiate (doctoral?) robes, believed to be a Pittsburgh studio and dated 1949. Measures 3.5 x 4.75", nice condition with scuffs and one soft corner. 
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