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...
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...
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.
Incredible aerial view with striking deep contrast. Likely New York City, signed original press / wire photo. Minimal scuffs to gloss. Measures 4.5 x 6.5".
The pose focused on her facial scars suggest more of an inventory photo than a portrait. Milky eyes and open mouth seem more hesitant than anything that could be construed positively. Though abolition began in Egypt...
Quoted from the Smithsonian's own archival entry: John N. Choate (1848-1902) was a commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The United States opened its first non-reservation government-supported school there in 1879 under...
‘Jeanie’ Smith (b. 1916) was first exhibited by her parents at the age of three as the world’s only living half girl. In later interviews she remembers that time and her whole career in the...