[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A large assortment of photographers' advertising cards, sheets, and signage.

47 items, ranging in size from approx. 3 1/2 x 2 in. to 10 x 12 in., including a wide array of printed matter related to specific photographers and/or photographic process, much of it advertising material. Items include: A broadside promoting "Splendid Daguerreotype Miniatures, Taken in Every Style, by E. S. Hayden." -- A cardstock signboard for the "Susquehanna Photo Co., Commercial Photography Developing & Printing. J. L. Hallman." -- A printed "Certificate" from E. P. Waite & Co., New York, which "entitles the holder to have one Elegant Life-Size Crayon Portrait made as an advertisement any time within 30 days." -- A business card for New Haven photographer Hurlbut, advertising "Fine Cabinet Photos" for $3.00, $4.00, and $5.00 per dozen. Card features a colored illustration of an older woman trying to lure a cat with a saucer of milk. -- A business card for Susquehanna photographer A. D. Harding, featuring his address and a small albumen portrait stamp affixed to the upper left. -- A proof-of-purchase card from Scranton photographer Frank Jewell, for a Mrs. Gardner, with negative number, size, style, number of copies, and price accomplished in manuscript. -- An illustrated cover advertising the Philadelphia business of "Theo J. Harbach, Importer and Manufacturer of Magic Lanterns Stereopticons and Slides." Centrally featured is an illustration of a "Dancing Skeleton" slide, being projected onto a screen by a magic lantern operator before a large seated crowd. -- And many others.

Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey

This lot is located in Cincinnati.