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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...
1932 Depression Era Labor Protest Cox’s Army Jobless Party Broadside
$750.00
In January of 1932 Father James Renshaw Cox, a Roman Catholic priest with humble Pittsburgh beginnings, led a march of 250,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians to Washington DC. When President Hoover launched an investigation into exactly how...
1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo
$200.00
Collegiate (doctoral?) robes, believed to be a Pittsburgh studio and dated 1949. Measures 3.5 x 4.75", nice condition with scuffs and one soft corner.
1950s ART Snapshot Photos Working Magician Tricks PR
$150.00
Composition and contrast plus COOL.
Booking photos for a Kentucky magician, identified on reverse.
Dated Aug 59 & Sept 1960 in 3.5” format. Very nice condition and brighter in person.
1950s Integrated Women Camera Club Nude Models Snapshot Photos
$750.00
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...
1960s JFK Era Society Woman Outsider Art Folk Drawings Archive
$5,500.00
INCREDIBLY intriguing and virtually unexplainable. (36) 8 x 10” nearly transparent sheets of copy or mimeograph paper dating to the early 1960s with references to Lyndon B. Johnson’s family and the William W. Scranton family...
1960s Levitating Woman Magic Trick ART Snapshot Photo
$250.00
Exceptional.
Warm tones, very nice condition.
Measures 3.5”, dated 1963 and identified as a working magician on reverse.
19thc African American Black Nanny Cabinet Card Photo
$300.00
Beaming with a smile.
Measures 4.25 x 6.5” with consistent foxing to margins and background, baby is very low contrast.
Signed Lynchburg VA.
19thc African American Elder Woman Child Itinerant Cabinet Photo
$300.00
Remarkable portrait. Frail but proud with modern Victorian clothing and (presumably) her grandson by her side. Measures 4.25 x 6.5”. Very good condition with consistent foxing and single chip top right. Pencil signed Made by...
19thc African American Woman Apron Labor Tintype Photo
$275.00
Working woman, apron over her beautiful paisley and fringe shawl.
Honest and textural image.
Mat measures 2.5 x 4”, tintype was fitted long ago with tape.
Nice condition with minimal soiling.
19thc Egyptian Slave African Woman Tribal Scarification Cabinet Photo
$1,200.00
The quality and freshness of her work uniform suggest a wealthy owner and all unsettling signs point to this as an inventory photo rather than a portrait. She does not face the photographer, her milky eyes...