[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A collection of photographs featuring various building exteriors and interiors.
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $202
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A collection of photographs featuring various building exteriors and interiors.
Boudoir card featuring Treadwell gold mine on Douglas Island in Alaska. [Boston]: [W.H. Partridge], 1886 (significant spotting and toning to image, with wear to mount edges and corners). Pencil identified as "Treadwells" on mount recto with extremely faint stamp reading, in part, "Alaska" and "1886." -- Large format silver gelatin photograph of a large house, with a multitude of young children and adults standing in front of it, likely a school group. Fargo, ND: Drysdale Evans, n.d. (image with some discoloration/dampstaining to upper and left edge, notable line of image loss to lower right, silvering to lower portion, some wear to edges; mount with significant dampstaining and wear to edges and corners). -- Cabinet card image of St. Michael's Church after a major cyclone hit Charleston, SC. Charleston: Chas. N. Beesley, ca 1880s (significant spotting, wear to image edges and corners, toning throughout, soiling and discoloration to mount). Gilt caption on mount recto, printed timeline of church on verso. -- Cabinet card view of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (toning, spotting, soiling, wear to mount edges and corners). Verso with modern pencil identification reading "Isle of Wight." -- And 25 others, including 3 more cabinet cards of St. Michael's Church, a photograph of Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, a funeral setup in a home, and many more. -- Together, 29 albumen and silver gelatin photographs showing the interiors and exteriors of various structures, ranging in size from 4 1/8 x 3 in. to 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. Conditions vary, most with toning, soiling,a nd significant to light wear to mount edges and corners.
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