[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 83 cabinet & large format photos, incl. children, families, students, & a band

Includes approx. 78 cabinet cards, cabinet card-sized images, or real photo postcards of men, women, and children of varying ages, credited to photographers/studios located throughout the United States, including: Bogardus, New York, NY; Kopke, Brooklyn, NY; Betancue & Button, Astoria, Oregon; F.J. Cherrington, Dallas, Oregon; Mealey, Pueblo, Colorado; Busse, Chadron, Nebraska; S.E. Morgan, Pratt City, Alabama; Dorge, Minneapolis, Minnesota; F.D. Sullivan, Mancelona, Michigan; Smith, Chicago, IL; Abell & Son, Portland, Oregon; Wilder, The Dalles, Oregon; Houghton, The Dalles, Oregon; J.D. Maxwell, Dayton, Wyoming Territory; Landy, Cincinnati, Ohio; George Klein, Chicago, IL; Brown, Central City, Nebraska; L. Taylor, Pullman, Washington; Janousek, Yankton, South Dakota; J.W. Bailey, Tuscumbia, Alabama; Talbott, El Dorado Springs, Missouri; Bishoff Bros, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Keller, Stockton, California; Western, Red Bluff, California; Hayes & Hendee, Jr., East Portland, Oregon; D.R. Brockman, Rockford, Washington.

Highlighted cabinet cards include: Studio portrait of the DeMoss Family Quartette posed with instruments displayed before them. Lebanon, PA: Roshon Galleries. Newspaper clipping applied to verso with information about the DeMoss Family, who began performing in Oregon in 1872. -- Group portrait of the Delta Upsilon fraternity in Greencastle, IN, 1900. Greencastle, IN: R.T. Jones, 1900. -- Composite image of staff and students from the Kansas Normal College. -- Studio portrait of a woman wearing a dress adorned with stars, stripes, and parade flags. The Dalles, OR: M.E. Herrin. -- 8-year-old girl posed with a parade flag. Everett, WA: The Anderson Studio. -- Woman posed beside a folk-art chair decorated with hearts. -- Studio view of a woman in ethnic dress. New York: Edsall. -- Studio portrait of a woman displaying a taxidermied deer head. Minneapolis, MN: Hatter. -- Studio portrait of George William Curtis.

[With:] 5 large format photographs, approx. 6 x 9 in. or smaller, on cardstock mounts, highlighted by a composite image comprised of 9 oval portraits of members of the Davis family (as identified on verso), including what appears to be a post-mortem portrait of a young girl at lower left. Companion portraits of an aged man and woman, each credited to G. Grelling, Detroit, MI, are also enclosed.

Together, approx. 83 photographs of men, women, and children, including portraits of couples, siblings, families, and other groups. Conditions fair to very good, with varying degrees of toning, occasional soiling and spotting, edge and corner wear to mounts.

Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon