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1920s African American HBCU Students Hampton Virginia Mounted Photo
$1,200.00
Likely the steps of a dormitory w/ den mother prominent center top row. Hampton University is home to the oldest African Diaspora museum in the U.S. and very famous amongst its graduates is Booker T....
1920s Carnival Anaconda Snake Photo Booth Kinetic Art Photo
$750.00
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 Coal Miners Lamps & Hunting Dogs Studio Photo
$295.00
Carbide lamps and one man with a bow tie, found in Southwestern PA.
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Blur to the animals and corner chips / slight bow to mount. Measures 9 x 11”.
1920s Outdoors Woman Camera Hand Tinted Lake Photo
$750.00
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.
1920s Progressive Woman Girl Scout Leader Sepia Portrait Photo
$195.00
Absolutely textbook example.
Measures 2 7/8 x 3 7/8”. Very nice condition with outstanding tones and details.
Identified Hazel in pen almost like a name badge.
1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages
$2,000.00
Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a...
1930s Factory Employee Passport Photos Photographers 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 for...
1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo
$550.00
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...
1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo
$295.00
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.
1940s Bingo Pinball Machine Snapshot Photo
$295.00
Iconic. Many cities had outlawed these machines as illegal gambling by the pencil date reverse 7.7.46. Rich b/w tones, measures 3.5 x 5.25".
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...