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...
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.
Early labor survey photos. Teenage boy gathers dried corn stalks to feed a primitive wood machine (5.5 x 7.75”). Signed NYC press photo service. Finished brooms posed on their ends in the alley, haphazard product...
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".
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.
Soft pictorial focus, exquisite fashion and hauntingly beautiful movement. Signed Fowler // Philadelphia PA. Sight size 3.75 x 5.75" in 7 x 11" folder. Strong contrast w/ no damage to photograph. Minor foxing to...
RARE glimpse into a work a day (largely serving vessels // pitcher & bowl sets) pottery factory, the entire work force women finishing the mold marks.
Board measures 5.25 x 7.25” w/ strong definition.
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...
Going so far as to make the average viewer extremely uncomfortable, the photo has captured such intense and overwhelming pain in a single body. So unlikely to be taken in a home, her case...