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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

$275.00

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

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1900s Chinese & Native American Western Integrated 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 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

$500.00

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

$500.00

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

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...
1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo 1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo

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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 Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Discovery Photo 1930s Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Discovery Photo

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1930s Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Discovery Photo

$2,000.00

Believed European (between World Wars), eyes on the photographer and breasts carefully positioned for the camera.   Likely women hired at a brothel to pose - cheap backdrop, work shoes and dirty feet betray the...
1950s Integrated Women Camera Club Nude Models Snapshot Photos 1950s Integrated Women Camera Club Nude Models Snapshot Photos

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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...
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