Situated on the deep head waters of the Cowlitz River, the town that became Kalama Washington had long been settled by the Chinook. The first recorded white settlers appear there in the 1850s courtesy of...
Heart stopping. Prisoner is hooded, executioner bent tying his feet while two priests deliver last rites and a crowd of officers watch. Stationed below the gallows is a regiment that appears largely African American (American...
Julius Williams, most often referred to as dead body in a field was decided to have died from unknown causes by this jury. Included is the cost sheet for the inquest along with the making of...
Angel presents a Polish proverb of wealth and abundance over a vignette of Columbus discovering America and fantasy Grover Cleveland & George Washington jugate. Strong red, white and blue theme printed on folded (blank interior)...
Exceptional collision of energy, historic import and composition. Identified reverse “General Garcia Funeral celebrations.” García’s family had been fighting for independence and abolition since the beginning of the 19thc first in Venezuela and then Cuba....
Sent on behalf of largely African American / Mississippi Delta sharecroppers working for cotton plantation owners or lumber mills, (11) requests dating between 1908 and 1927. The personal relationship to the farmhands by the...
1795 Maryland Sampler embroidered by Miss Rebecca Cromwell as photographed and archived by Douglas E. Brinton (Oxford Pennsylvania) in the year 1900. Outrageously cool. Sight size measures 4.5 x 5.75”, mount 7.5 x 9.75”. Nice...
Ilya Repin (a Ukrainian born realist painter who used his position in the European arts to elevate Russia on the international stage) completed this barefoot portrait of his friend in 1901 from a visit to...
Remarkably intense portrait of Dr. Washington w/ unusual inclusion of female staffers in a school image. Important and early capture. Washington flanked by Emmanuel Jay Scott (nicknamed the Architect of the Tuskegee Machine), Nathan...
Attorneys for the Cherokee Nation Before the United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes // Cherokee Enrollment Division letterhead; W.W. Hastings Attorney and J.C. Starr Secretary. From the office in Tahlequah Indian Territory 7/9 1903...
Scarce reference and visually stunning. Dates to the earliest part of the 20th century. Measures 2.5 x 4.25” w/ strong silver gelatin contrast.
No condition issues.
Early labor survey photos. Teenage boy gathers dried corn stalks to feed a primitive wood machine (5.5 x 7.75”). Signed NYC press photo service. Finished brooms posed on their ends in the alley, haphazard product...