Search Results: Authors starting with G from House of Mirth Photos

The Hulcher Camera Company was founded in the early 1950s by photographer Charles Hulcher. They made panoramic cameras, press camera and specialized high-speed cameras used in film, the military and in aeronautics. This lot of about 100 photos and ephemera was acquired from Betty Giles, who worked for the Company for over 30 years. An article on her from the Daily Press in Hampton, VA in 1989, says that Betty was a Jack of All Trades and that her duties include that of photographer, secretary, lab technician, executive assistant to firm president Charles Hulcher, model and "dishwasher." This lot includes over 50 photos of Betty modeling with the different types of Hulcher Cameras and dates from around 1950s to the 1980s. A rough breakdown of items include: Brochure for Hulcher Records the Space Age (1962) Page on the Hulcher 35 - 35MM Double Frame Sequence Instrumentation Camera Page on Hulcher 35 Model 106 - Time Lapse, Surveillance and Recording Camera Fold out brochure on Hulcher System of… Read More

A most extraordinary assemblage of 62 photographic portraits, landscapes, watercolors, ink drawings, and ephemera, curated by a wealthy and well-connected British eccentric, and bound in bespoke leather. Most of the items that are dated in the album are from the 1930s, with a few from 1950/1951. This unique and extraordinary compilation was the brainchild and decades long project of Edward Charles Le Grice, F.R.P.S. (Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society). There is some information available online about Le Grice, but nothing about this project, surely one of his proudest accomplishments, and probably a pastime which brought him much pleasure. More information on Le Grice is at the end of this description. There are 86 ivory-paper leaves/176 pages, with three sided gilt-edged. 9" w X 11" h X 2.5" d. The binding is unique: the front cover is an embossed brown-calf hard-leather version of Le Grice's own 1910 x-ray photograph of half a dozen seahorses, floating among seaweed. The spine, with… Read More