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1900s Cleveland OH Elevator Operator Miniature Labor Photos
$500.00
SCARCE subject.
(2) mounted photos (3 x 3.5"), (4) miniatures measure 1 x 2" to 2 x 3" and news clipping.
1920s African American Equestrian Woman w/ Horses
$300.00
Her dress and surroundings suggest her ownership of the animals rather than any employment as a stable hand, a rare social circumstance for the time. 8 x 10” w/ nicks to photo and bottom rail of...
1920s Carnival Anaconda Snake Photo Booth Kinetic Art Photo
$800.00
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...
1920s Female Photographer Hand Tinted Lake Photo
$800.00
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.
1920s Movie Theatre Posters Handmade Folk Art Drawings Book
$2,000.00
Remarkable and beautifully compulsive little object, no doubt by the hand of a young man working as a projectionist between reels. In addition to the movie posters and favorite scenes, there are cut times...
1930s African American Mother & Child Studio Chalk Photo
$500.00
The pride with which she presents her baby, the years of hard labor evident on her hands and face are striking. Monochrome BLUE used to create the field, lighten her work dress (possibly uniform) and...
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 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...
1930s Weinmar Germany Students Vernacular Snapshot Photos Archive
$1,200.00
Compiled by a student (appears to be a woman's hand) during her time in nursing school and her colleagues in medical school w/ insights into classes, lectures and operating rooms. Bright young people at study...
1950s African American Man Fraternal Shriner Studio Photo H/C
$500.00
Jaw dropping color, top notch example of mid century studio photography. Handsome and confident man w/ one hand in his pocket to expose the watch fob. He wears an Atlanta GA Shriner's Fez. ___ Sight...
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...
1959/60 Cuban Revolution Castro Propaganda Photos & Postcard
$2,000.00
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...