[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [OCCUPATIONAL]. A group of 17 photographs of policemen, including:
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $599
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [OCCUPATIONAL]. A group of 17 photographs of policemen, including:
9 cabinet card studio portraits of New Jersey police officers, each in uniform, holding a baton in front of the same painted studio backdrop. Elizabeth, NJ: H. Schafer, n.d. (some toning, wear to edges and corners). Each card with Schaefer's imprint on verso. -- Sixth plate tintype full standing portrait of a police officer in uniform, with a baton at his side. (Image rather dark, soft in focus, and with many creases and bends to plate; unsealed.) Housed in a pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Ninth plate ambrotype portrait of a police officer with gold-highlighted hat and coat buttons and baton or knife handle detail. (Tarnishing to edges and flaking to emulsion in lower third of portrait; unsealed.) Housed in a separated Union case (front cover cracked and broken into two pieces, portion of front cover missing). -- And 6 other photographs including albumen and silver gelatin examples. -- Together, 17 portraits of police officers.
[With:] A group of 17 chromolithograph trade cards featuring police captains from New York precincts, the Brooklyn Superintendent of Police and the Jersey City Chief of Police.
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