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Lot 312

Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller Documenting People from the American West, Featuring Chinese Woman and Photographer
Sale 1853 - American History: Premier Auction
Jun 21, 2019 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 - 700
Price Realized
$1,625
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Lot Description
Colorado Stereoviews by T.C. Miller Documenting People from the American West, Featuring Chinese Woman and Photographer

Lot of 18 stereoviews featuring figural subjects, primarily captured outdoors against the Colorado landscape, each marked, "Colorado Views, / Published by T C Miller / Portrait & Landscape Photographer. / Lebanon Mo," and many with inscribed captions on verso. Collection includes views of a group of four rugged men and two donkeys, captioned, "Off prospecting,"; a photographer posing with camera equipment outside of a makeshift studio tent; an Asian woman in a loose-fitting dress, seated before a studio backdrop, with verso caption reading, "China Mary,"' and a man held at knife- and gunpoint by three outlaws, with his hands raised over his head, captioned, "Relieving a Tenderfoot / of his cash." Ca 1881-1886.

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