The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

Lot comprised of 16 images, in varying conditions though most feature some toning or fading, and spotting, with wear to mount edges and corners. Including the following highlights:

CDV, exterior view of Thomas Taylor's photography gallery. Thomas Taylor, Photographer (written in negative). Examples of the photographer's work displayed in front windows. -- CDV, advertisement for "Trinquart Photographie," Paris. Paris: Trinquart, ca 1860s-early 1870s. -- CDV, photographic advertisement featuring an image of a painting hanging above a desk. Horres: James Lillie Studio. -- CDV, woman seated in a studio beside a photo-retouching device. -- Hand-colored CDV, two women in a studio. One woman is seated and appears to be enhancing a portrait with paint suggesting that she may be a photo-colorist. The other woman admires her work. Philadelphia: Larkin Gallery. -- CDV showing a woman thumbing through a CDV album. Salem, NJ: G.H. McCall. -- CDV, portrait of a charming, toddler-aged girl posed in a studio. A hand-held stereoviewer and stereoviews can be seen on the table beside her. Xenia, OH: S.P. Tresize. -- CDV, studio view of two women and a man viewing an album. Uncredited (print and mount trimmed). -- 2 CDVs featuring "trick" or photomanipulated subjects, one credited to Fox (New York), one uncredited.

[With:] 4 stereoviews, including a view of a colorist or touch-up artist at work (uncredited), interior view of Appleton & Co's. photography store in New York (uncredited), view of a photographer and possibly his assistant at work (uncredited), foreign stereoview of a woman being photographed (uncredited). -- Print after drawing/sketch featuring a rendering of a photographer and his subjects at work and play, lower left credit to J.C. Spooner, out of Springfield, Massachusetts. 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. print on cardstock (toning, creasing, soiling throughout). -- Printed advertisement for "Group Pictures," by Alden, photographer, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (possibly trimmed).