Vernacular Photos
1900s Texas Southwest Old Mexico Border Family Photos
$500.00
Sight size measures 3.75 x 4.5", terribly intimate portraits.
Flaking to mounts.
1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo
$500.00
INCREDIBLE circumstance and details in the itinerant’s backdrops (photographs on the ground behind) and clothing.
Identified Beallsville PA. Mount measures 6 x 8”, very nice condition with edge wear.
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...
1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia
$275.00
Fine dress and corsage or purse stand in stark contrast to her empty countenance. Posed against a house on stilts, this may well be the first photograph of her life. Pale blue mount measures 5.5...
(PR) 19thc Victorian Child & Black Rag Doll CDV Studio Photos
$1,200.00
Strong images that have remarkably survived together. One, a very purposeful view with the doll and the companion image captures how familiar and loved the object was to this child. Signed J.H. Lamson...
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.
c1940 Circus Sideshow Couple Intimate Discovery Photo
$1,000.00
‘Jeanie’ Smith (b. 1916) was first exhibited by her parents at the age of three as the world’s only living half girl. In later interviews she remembers that time and her whole career in 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...
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...
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...
1910s Integrated Children School Class Western Photo
$600.00
Caucasian, African American, Native American, Asian Descent (Chinese I believe) and possibly Mexican or Mexicali children. Many girls wear flour sack dresses and a few of the boys are bare foot. Found in Texas and...
1910s African American Man Calling Card w/ Photo
$275.00
Rare example. Measures 1” photograph on 2 3/4 x 4” card. Center crease and foxing.