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Crannell, CA: Little River Redwood Company, 1930. Photograph. Fine. Fourteen 5-by-7-inch sepia-tone photographs documenting logging operations in a long-gone company town in the redwood forest north of Eureka, on the California coast. Two of the images show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); one shows a logging railroad; the rest depict scenes in the forest during the handsaw era. These images are most often seen as postcards notifying buyers that their orders from Little River Redwood Company had been placed on railcars. These larger-format images are quite uncommon. The Little River Redwood Company began operation at Crannell about 1908 and continued until the 1950s. The town was razed in 1969. Logging operations in Crannell shut Two of the views show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); a third shows a logging railroad. The images do not have a photographer's name; attribution to Dold and Dold based on cataloguing of images from this set hed at Humboldt State University, relying on information from the…
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14 Promotional Photographs of Little River Redwood Co. Operations in Crannell, California
by Dold and Dold (photographers; attributed to)
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27 Cabinet Cards of Paris Scenes
by Quinet, Achille
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(Paris): Achille Quinet, 1870. Photograph. Fine. A set of 27 cabinet cards measuring 6-3/8 by 4-1/4 (16.2 by 10.8 cm), with images slightly smaller. The sepia-tone albumen photographs depict architectural scenes in Paris and the surrounding areas. The images, most titled in the negative and a few on the mount, include Place de la Concorde; Chateau de Fontainebleau; Palais des Tuileries; Notre-Dame; Tour St. Jacques; and Eglise de la Trinité. Quinet (1831-1900) was a photographer and inventor-he patented the Quinetoscope, the first twin-lens stereoview camera, and he developed the first vertical photograph enlarger. This collection is an example of his commercial work, photographs of Paris buildings and monuments. Quinet was a member of the Sociéte Française de Photographie from 1876 to 1894, and he exhibited his work at the Universal Exposition of 1878. One image has small areas of loss; the rest are fine or nearly so.
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A 62. Section of the "Grizzly Giant," 33 feet diameter, Mariposa Grove, Cal. [Imperial Plate]
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San Francisco: Taber Photo, 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) portrait of Galen Clark holding a rifle and standing in front of one of the first famous trees from the Yosemite area. Watkins took this image in 1865 or 1866, during one of his extended trips to Yosemite. It was printed by Isaiah Taber from the original negative, after Taber took over Watkins's bankrupt photo studio. The Getty owns a copy of this image and it is very similar to one of Watkins's mammoth-plate images (Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, no. 104). While it is generally known that Watkins regularly took his 18-by-22-inch mammoth glass-plate camera and a stereoview camera to Yosemite, the existence of imperial plate photographs suggests he took a third camera with him on his trips. Amy S. Doherty ("Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916" in the Syracuse University Courier vol. 15, no. 4, 1978) proposed this idea based on an examination of a bound…
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[Almost Every Commercial Building in Wykoff, Minnesota] [37 Quarter-Plate Mounted Photographs]
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1898. Ephemera. Near fine. A remarkable series of uniform images of Wykoff, Minnesota, taken in 1898, documenting 35 commercial buildings (plus two interior views), with the inhabitants standing in front of the structure. This series includes all but two buildings on the 100 block of North Gold Street, now on the National Register of Historic Places. The remaining views include churches, the public hall, free-standing wood-frame structures on adjacent streets, and more industrial buildings, like the livery and stables, a lumber yard, a wagon and carriage shop, a blacksmith shop, an unidentified four-story factory, etc. These images offer a seldom-seen view of the commercial buildings of a small town at the end of the 19th century and offer insight into the number, gender, ages of the owners, employees, and residents of the structures. Based on Wykoff's application to the National Register of Historic Places, this set of images includes 14 of the 16 buildings on the 100 block of North Gold Street,…
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Amelia E. Barr [Cabinet Card Photograph]
by Dana, Edward C. (photographer)
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New York: Dana, 1895. Ephemera. Very good. A head-and-shoulder's portrait of the novelist Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919), the author of some 80 books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Barr, née Huddleston, was born in Lancashire, England, and emigrated to the US in 1853. Her first novel was published in 1872. Image, roughly 4 by 5-3/4 inches, on a larger card mount. The back (verso) of the mount promotes the photography technique used, "Carbonette Our 1895 production." A very good contrast image, with dark charcoal tones. The mount has notes in color and regular pencil on the lower front margin as well as various notes on the back (verso).
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Arizona Indians: Basket Weaver [Photograph]
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Los Angeles: Putnam and Valentine, 1900. Ephemera. Very good. A gelatin silver print photograph showing a Pima (probably) woman kneeling on the ground with a basket on her lap. Behind her sits a young child, with the door of a wickiup dwelling in the background. She is surrounded by basket-making supplies, laying on cloth blankets, in finished baskets, and in metal tins. The woman and her child are wearing print dresses. This is an attractive image, printed in the center of a paper sheet, with a decorative photographic vignette of cactus-filled landscape at the lower right corner. Image: 8 by 4-1/2 inches; sheet: 13-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. Marked "Copyright 1900 (?) By A. Putnam." Putnam (1870-1949). Arion worked for his father John R. Putnam and Carlton Valentine, the owners of Putnam and Valentine, a prominent Los Angeles photography studio from the 1890s into the twentieth century. For a time, Arion was a photographer for the Southern Pacific and he may have made this image while touring the…
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Bendixen's Ship-yard, Eureka, Humboldt Co., California [Launch of the Defender]
by Ericson, A. W.
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Arcata, CA: Ericson Bro's, 1896. Photograph. Good. Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short crack in bottom of mount.
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A Bonnie Haddie [Newhaven, Scotland, Fish Wives CDV]
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Edinburgh: Ross & Pringle, 1870. Ephemera. Very good. A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows one woman offering a platter of fish to another woman, who is holding a fish in both hands, closely inspecting one of them. A basket of fish is on the ground between them. The photographers Ross & Pringle operated as a partnership from 1867 to 1875 at the 114 George Street address printed on the back (verso) of the mount (per the Edinphoto website). Occupational carte de visite photograph; image, 2-3/16 by 3-11/16 inches. Thin card mount, 2-7/16 by 4-3/16 inches, with photographer's mark on the back. Caption stamped below image on front (recto) of mount. A very good image with a bit of spotting in the print. Good contrast…
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[CDV of Women in the Textile Industry in Scotland]
by Turner, W. T.
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Leslie, Fife: W. T. Turner, 1870. Ephemera. Near fine. A portrait of two unidentified women holding strands of yarn. They are wearing distinctive uniforms of thick gathered skirt over a second, stiff, horizontally pleated skirt; a tunic over a blouse, and a flat cloth head covering that seems to tie in a large bow around their necks. On the back (verso) of the mount someone has written in pencil, "Wool Bleachers in Scotland." Based on the location of the photographer and other photographs of 19th century bleachworks, it seems more likely that these women worked in a linen factory. A scarce image of women workers in the third quarter of the 19th century. Occupational carte de visite photograph; image, 2-3/8 by 3-9/16 inches. Thin card mount, 2-1/2 by 4 inches, with photographer's printed mark on the back. Near fine. Medium contrast image.
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CDV of a Middle Eastern Couple
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Wooster and Ashland, Ohio: Teeple, 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. A carte de visite image of a man and a woman, possibly Egyptian, possibly a pregnant woman and her husband. The woman wears a long white veil that extends almost to the ground. Her hands are crossed over her stomach. The man, wearing a fez, stands next to her, holding a document in his left hand. Most likely, this is a copy print as there is a narrow dark band along the bottom of the image, which is typical of imperfectly produced copy photographs. Albumen silver print, 2-1/4 by 3-7/8 inches, on a stiff card mount with a decorative Teeple Photography design on the verso (back). An attractive photograph, with good tones, perhaps a touch over exposed as some detail is lost in the white areas.
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Cabinet Card Portrait of Sojourner Truth
by [Truth, Sojourner] Randall, Corydon C. (photographer)
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Detroit: Randall, Photographer, 1881. Ephemera. Very good. A full-length cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth with the caption, "I sell the shadow to support the substance." This is one of Truth's last portraits, taken when she was in her eighties and purchased in bulk to sell at events, hence the caption. During the Civil War, Truth took the unusual step of acquiring the copyright to her portrait, giving her control over both the distribution of her image and the money it generated. The verso (back) of the mount of this photograph includes Truth's copyright statement. Truth (1797-1883), born Isabella Baumfree, was one of the best-known abolitionists and women's rights advocates of the 19th century. She traveled the country for decades giving talks and attending conferences, selling her photographs-her "shadow"-as a primary means of support. The art professor Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby has published an extensive study of Truth's photographs (Enduring Truths, 2015). Based on Grigsby's research into…
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Cafe turc [Albumen photograph]
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[Constantinople (Istanbul)]: [Probably Sébah and Joaillier], 1890. Perhaps the most well-known image from the photographer Pascal Sébah or his son Jean, a view outside a Turkish coffee shop of a group of men drinking coffee and smoking. At the center of the image is a seated man with a white beard holding a cup in one hand and the hose of a hookah in the other. A waiter holds a glass-bottomed hookah for him. More men sit on either side of the central figure. However, it is a man on the far right of the image, staring fiercely at the camera, a pipe in his mouth, that adds drama to the scene, returning the gaze of the viewer. This man and the waiter, who are in front of the main row of men, also add a nice compositional element, dividing the foreground from the background (a second image taken on the same day-based on the foliage and the shape of the knot of rope on the cafe wall-lacks these two elements and it is much less successful from an artistic perspective). Adding further interest to the…
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[Candid Photograph, Signed]
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1980. An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934-1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper, with the image slightly smaller. The photographer is not identified. The photograph is fine; the signature is a bit faint and hard to read. It says "For ___-and his ___ Audrey Lorde.
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[Ceylon: Metal Workers (Singhalese)]
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[Kandy, Sri Lanka]: [Scowen & Co.], 1880. Ephemera. Very good. A large-format occupational albumen photograph of two Sinhalese brassworkers, probably by Scowen, the most active photographer in Sri Lanka at the time. The image shows a man wearing a sarong seated on the floor with a large brass platter on his lap and a hammer and chisel in his hands. A boy, also wearing a sarong, stands to the side showing a finished platter to the camera; he holds a hammer in his other hand. Ornamental brass work was an important 19th century Sri Lankan craft. This is likely a posed studio portrait, as the background seems to include agricultural and floral motifs typically used for photography backdrops. On the left side of the image is a narrow dark triangle, perhaps indicating a damaged negative (the other print of this image that I have seen had the same feature; it was captioned "Kandy Brass Workers" on the mount. Image: 8-1/2 by 10-7/8 inches; thin double-ply cardstock mount slightly larger, captioned in…
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Coolee Women / Women Working at 2c Per Day
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[India?], 1890. Ephemera. Near fine. A carefully posed full-length albumen silver print portrait of two women, possibly Bengali, working as dirt haulers. They pose behind a small pile of soil, a shovel, and a basket partially filled with dirt. One woman balances a basket on her head. In style, this is a very typical occupational photograph. Two workers pose with their tools. It is distinctly unusual that the workers are women doing hard, manual labor. It is difficult to determine if this photograph was taken in a studio or if the photographer posed the women against a convenient wall. The pile of dirt definitely has the character of a prop, just large enough to give the idea for the image without having an actual construction site in the frame. The photographer used a rather homemade-looking wooden structure set behind the women to help them hold still. One woman leans against it, with her elbow resting on the horizontal beam. The other woman straddles one leg, which is just visible between her…
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Cotton Sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sell little, buy little
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. Lange's images from this era often have descriptive names rather than titles, and they have changed over time. This one is called "Cotton Sharecroppers"... on the Library of Congress website; "Greene County, Georgia" is written in pencil on the back (verso) of this photograph. At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library of Congress and for many years, anyone could ask the library to make prints from the negatives. In this case, the negative (as…
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Dr. Thompson Shaving [Portrait Photograph of O Dome Koos of the Klamath Tribe]
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Ashland, OR: B. L. Cunningham, 1905. Ephemera. Near fine. A gelatin silver print of an elderly man in profile, holding a mirror in one hand and trimming his beard with scissors held in the other hand. The subject's clothes, a thick cloth jacket and canvas jeans, are worn and full of holes. The image is captioned in pencil on the mount, with the following hard-to-read text on the back (verso), also in pencil: "No. 113. Dr. Thompson Shaving. Said to be 110 years old-the oldest of the Klamath Indians. B. L. Cunningham[?], Photo. Ashland, Oreg. This is a sample of the [?] of [?] Klamath [?], O. J. L[?]." Dr. Thompson ("Indian name" O Dome Koos) appears in the census of the Klamath Indian Agency in the early 1900s, with the final entry in 1907, suggesting an outer limit for the date of this photograph. His date of birth recorded in the census varies from year to year, but 1823 is the median, suggesting he was perhaps in his seventies at the time of this picture. The photographer was probably Burton…
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Drought Refugees from Oklahoma Camping by the Roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Near fine. One of Lange's powerful portraits of destitute farmworkers taken in California in 1936 while she was working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. This image shows Jess Power with his wife Zella (McCann) Power and baby Jesse Power. They were camped in Riverside County, in Southern California, when Lange came upon them. They were three of the Okies, fleeing from the Dust Bowl conditions in Oklahoma, the story told in words by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library of Congress and for many years, anyone could ask the library to make prints, directly from Lange's original negatives. This is one…
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East Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. [Stereoview]
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[New York?]: [Best Manufacturing], 1885. Near fine. A stereoview of the Everett Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. This is no. 1336 in the "B" Series, a vast collection of pirated views issued by an East Coast firm with many locations. This view is a single photograph, almost certainly a copy print of another photographer's work. Near fine. Medium contrast; curved back. The image is badly centered, with the right side wider than the left.
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El Capitan, Yosemite [Imperial Plate]
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[San Francisco]: [Probably Taber Photo], 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. An imperial plate (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches) image of the El Capitan, one of the best-known rock formations in the Yosemite Valley. Watkins made at least five mammoth-plate images from this vantage point over a period of at least 20 years. Watkins took this image between 1878 and 1881. It may have been printed by Isaiah Taber, after Taber took over Watkins's bankrupt photo studio. However, it does not have the Taber imprint but the mount matches another Yosemite image with Taber's logo in the negative. This view is very similar to one of Watkins's mammoth-plate images (Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, no. 136) and was almost certainly taken at the same time. It is easily distinguishable from images taken at another time because this image and the corresponding mammoth-plate view have a white reflection of the mountain in the water in the foreground. In addition to the albumen print offered…
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