Striking composition with the owner stepping in and the gaze of the excluded woman.
Measures 3.25 x 5.5”, mailed from Cambridge MA.
Nice condition with minimal wear to edges.
ALL motion and energy, captured by one shutter a hundred years ago. Over ambitious carnies and a trade mag stunt makes sense. The photographer is shaking so hard that only the snake’s open...
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.
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 for...
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...
1. Holy Mother in the Mountains / July 26th Armband Photo Montage. (Measures 4 x 6", surface scratches and minor foxing right edge). Signed St. Naranjo. 2. Raul / Field GRANMA Yacht (Also 4...
Highly unusual. Elder wearing a homespun calico uniform and apron posed in a dignified 3/4 portrait. In the companion piece, her employer reads to her aloud from the bible. The race roles we expect from...
Endearing and scarce. Measures 4.25 x 6.5”, signed Corry PA and dated April 9, 1887. Nice condition with nothing more than a few specks to background, flecks at mount edges and noninvasive stub top left...
‘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...
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...