American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online

Includes approx. 16 CDVs of children of varying ages, credited to photographers/studios located throughout the United States and beyond, including: California Photographic Gallery, San Francisco; Sawyer Bros., Philadelphia; Chester & Handy, Cape May, NJ; W. Damry, Liege. Highlighted subjects include a young boy in uniform with a sword in his belt, posed beside a drum; 2 additional CDVs of young men in uniform; young boy standing beside a table covered by a magazine or print. 

[With:] Approx. 37 cabinet cards, cabinet card-sized images, or real photo postcards of children of varying ages, credited to photographers/studios located throughout the United States, including: Broadbent Brothers, Philadelphia; Morse, San Francisco; L.D. Compton, Salem, NJ; Skalnick, New York; Busey, Baltimore; Merritt, Washington, DC; Setzer & Roth, St. Louis; Harden, Wichita, KS; Deane & Co., Waco, TX; Pickett, Hollister, CA; Bolton, Milville, NJ; Cartwright, Marengo, IA. Highlighted subjects include a pair of portraits showing the front and back views of a young boy and girl dressed in formal attire; a young girl dressed in what appears to be Colonial-era garb; a girl getting watter from a well, posed before a studio backdrop; a teenaged girl dressed in white wearing a cross around her neck, possibly taken on her confirmation day; 2 outdoor views of children posed with oars; a white child dressed in Native American costume; a toddler-aged girl posed with her pup; outdoor portrait of a family of 8 posed with a parrot housed in a cage at their side. 

[Also with:] 2 photographs, approx. 6 1/4 x 8 in., or slightly smaller, including a studio portrait of a toddler-aged girl wearing a fur stole and muff, and an outdoor view of a young boy drinking water from a barrel near a waterfall. 

Together, more than 50 CDVs, cabinet cards, and other photographs of children. Condition generally fair to good, with toning, occasional soiling, edge and corner wear to mounts.