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1890s Child Nurse Roosevelt Hospital NYC Portrait Photo
$300.00
Outstanding caregiver portrait, barefoot girl with doll held by Julia Bowne of Roosevelt Hospital who shows in the Children’s Ward by the mid 1890s. Beautiful condition image with wear to card stock, mount measures 5.5...
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.
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
$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 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...
19thc African American Woman Domestic Labor Discovery Photos
$1,500.00
Elder wearing a homespun calico uniform and apron from another time. She is composed in a 3/4 length portrait on her own and in the companion piece, her employer reads aloud from the bible. The...
BEST 1910s African American Child Nanny
$1,500.00
Her beauty and her lack of years, a teenager herself, are striking. That gaze would hold our attention even if the photograph had not been so expert. But it is. There is...