Vernacular Photos
1900s Chinese & Native American Western Integrated Social History Photo
$1,200.00
Compelling portraits of under represented cultures in the development of America's Western history.
Nice condition with only smudges at margin and minimal corner chipping.
Mount measures 5.25 x 7.25".
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA
$2,000.00
Discovery image. Signed Lewis R. (Ransome) Freeman / Pasadena California paid on August 19, 1913 by Brown Brothers NYC. Freeman was a gentleman traveler and photo journalist who ran the gambit from Geological...
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...
1890s British India Fashion Studio Photo Painted
$600.00
The height of British Victorian society photographed in the Indian colony. Signed G. W. Lawrie (Lucknow - Northern India). Exquisite detail and colors, particularly in the textiles. ___ Board measures 12...
1927 Tarahumara Runners University of Texas Race Photo
$800.00
Documents a historic North American Indian / Mexican and Texas track exhibition orchestrated by Theo Belmont, Athletic Director of University of Texas in 1927. Jose Torres, Augustin Salido, Tomas Zafiro, Juanita Paciencia, Juanita de...
1910s Liberty w/ Flag Americana Painted Costume Photo
$900.00
Her pose, the draping and the color - all world class and ICONIC.
Measures 2.5 x 3” pasted to original 9.5 x 12” black album page.
1950s African American Man Fraternal Shriner Studio Photo H/C
$500.00
Jaw dropping color, top notch example of mid century studio photography. Handsome and confident man w/ one hand in his pocket to expose the watch fob. He wears an Atlanta GA Shriner's Fez. ___ Sight...
c1917 WWI Liberty Loan Poster Woman Artist Discovery Photo
$600.00
Appears to be one of a kind. Identified Eugenie DeLand Saugstad, the artist responsible for the Before Sunset poster she is posed with here. Water damage has caused emulsion damage and wrinkles. Measures 6.5 x 7"...
WWI American Military Draft Lottery Fishbowl Discovery Photos
$1,500.00
Identified Miss W. Wellborn of Atlanta GA, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and General Peyton Marsh (Chief of Staff) pull allotted draft serial numbers out of a fishbowl in the 1918 supplemental draft. Strong...
1890s Integrated Native American Frontier Family Cabinet Photo
$750.00
Striking incongruity amongst her pioneer guardians, the young woman in high Victorian fashion entirely pulling focus. She is stoic and exquisitely beautiful, likely from the Chickasaw tribe. Signed Jenkins Studio in Ardmore / Indian (Oklahoma)...
19thc American Primitive Folk Art Oil Painting Tintype Photos
$500.00
Reminiscent of Hamblin Prior School. A meta-antique. Well executed oil painting portraits captured professionally by an early photographer, with revenue stamp. Nice condition w/ good contrast and fine detail. Measure 2 3/8 x 3...
1920s Baby & Infant Sanitation Clinic Children’s Hospital Photos
$500.00
Early instruction to combat infant mortality rates, identified Lebanon PA and dated Nov 1925.
(5) photos pasted to original make do mounts (5.5 x 7.25”) in nice condition with occasional wave to paper.