Historic Reference
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...
1900s Cleveland OH Elevator Operator Miniature Labor Photos
$550.00
SCARCE subject.
(2) mounted photos (3 x 3.5"), (4) miniatures measure 1 x 2" to 2 x 3" and news clipping.
1910s WWI Era Italy Prosthetic Limb Factory & Amputee Portrait Photos
$900.00
Individual work stations and lathes stacked with blanks; one man shapes a wooden leg at center. Includes before & after photographs of a beneficiary. Measure 5 x 7” and 2.5 x 4.5”. ...
WWI African American Soldiers Carnegie Library Group Photo
$600.00
Remarkable. Uniformed soldiers (and the women to welcome them home after Armistice) spill across the yard of a Carnegie Library. Men are sitting in the windows - a few even have climbed the building to...
1910s Sepia Gothic African American Railroad Labor Train Car Photos
$900.00
Startling tones and composition, text book images. Earl M. Tucker reverse (almost certainly the Caucasian man), found in NC. ____ Sight size 5 x 7". One photograph shows edge chipping but mounts suffer heavy damage. ...
19thc Religious River Baptism Sepia Photo
$1,500.00
EARLY and strong enough to contribute to any discussion of the subject.
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c1880s board measures 6 x 8.25" with damage left edge and top / center.
Please refer to photo details.
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA
$2,200.00
Arresting 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...
1860s African American AME Church Membership Card
$600.00
Rare survivor. African Methodist Episcopal Church membership dues slip for the third quarter 1862. Henry Robert's (member) name in pencil and in a more confident hand, A. Till Minister. ___ Very good stable condition with...
20thc African American Call to Baptist Church Card
$300.00
H.J. Burton V.D.M. Pastor Mt. V. Baptist Church BAPTIZING at 11:45 AM ALL CHILDREN COME OUT _____ McKinley 1c stamp dates this to the very beginning of the 20thc. _____ Postcard measures 3.25 x 5.5". ...
1900s Chinese & Native American Western 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".
Remarkable 1930s Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Snapshot Photo
$2,000.00
Believed European (between World Wars), eyes on the photographer and breasts carefully positioned for the camera. Likely women hired at a brothel to pose - cheap backdrop, work shoes and dirty feet betray the...
1910s Child Soldier Decapitation Moro Philippine Insurrection RPPC Photo
$2,000.00
Gruesome certainly, but important historic evidence. Barefoot boy with war trophy. Clothing suggests Juramentado flanked by more traditional uniformed Filipino soldiers. Measures 3.5 x 5.5”, very good condition with edge chips and gloss...