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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 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.
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA
$2,000.00
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...
1910s Folk Art Americana Weathervane Factory Workshop Interior Photo
$900.00
Full bodied American eagle weathervane posed for the photograph and a running horse in progress behind, the other two men work on cupolas. Region not known. Body shapes of both animals suggest either E.G. Washburne...
1910s Prison Convict Labor Fort Madison IA Photo RPPC
$500.00
Incredibly unique glimpse of an early work house. The men wearing their own clothing among scrap piles of shop materials. African American and Caucasian men, some no older than boys. Unused AZO postcard w/ heavy...
1910s Sepia Gothic African American Railroad Labor Train Car Photos
$1,200.00
Startling tones and composition, text book images. Earl M. Tucker reverse (almost certainly the Caucasian man), found in NC. ____ Sight size 5 x 7". One photograph shows edge chipping but mounts suffer heavy damage. ...
1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo
$600.00
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...
1930s Integrated Factory Employees Engineers Passport Photo Archive
$1,200.00
Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) was an early titan in the fields of electricity and transportation, by this time with projects all over the world. Presumably shot by the Westinghouse commercial / factory photographer...
1930s Movie Projectionists Labor Union Strike Letter & Cards
$500.00
The International Association of Theatre and Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Interstate Projectionist Union picketing Keith’s Theatre, the Little Hippodrome and New Academy Theatre in the months following the AFL / NRA newly passed labor...
1932 Depression Era Labor Protest Cox Army Jobless Party Broadside
$750.00
In January of 1932 Father James Renshaw Cox, a Roman Catholic priest with humble Pittsburgh beginnings, led a march of 250,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians to Washington DC. When President Hoover launched an investigation into exactly how...
1950s Integrated Women Camera Club Nude Models Snapshot Photos
$800.00
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...
19thc African American Woman Domestic Labor Discovery Photos
$1,500.00
Elder wearing a homespun calico uniform and apron from another time. She is composed in a 3/4 length portrait on her own and in the companion piece, her employer reads aloud from the bible. The...