[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - OCCUPATIONAL]. A group of 23 photographs, including:

3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. photograph. Trade school, with young men working at benches scattered about, one older man, possibly an instructor, near center of the room.

7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. photograph. House on wheels. Four men and a horse in front.

6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. photograph of M. Bowman’s Grocery with dozens of people gathered together in the front.

2 photographs of Richards & Thayer Grocery, Holyoke, MA, incl. 5 1/2 x 8 in. photograph of a delivery wagon, horse hitched up and ready to go, and 6 x 8 in. interior view of the store with two clerks ready for business.

4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. photograph of Miller Bros. Co. Produce Merchants Agents, Chas.(?) Trucks. According to note on verso, taken at Fremont, Ohio Fairgrounds ca 1915.

5 x 7 in. photograph of railroad workers. Group of over two dozen men behind a boxcar, several tracks running into the building.

6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. photograph of cameramen sitting around, apparently waiting for action, as their cameras are set up and ready. Underwood & Underwood copyright statement on verso.

5 x 7 in. photograph of business office, showing two men at a desk overflowing with paperwork. Signs scattered about for Toilet Articles, Trade Mark, and more.

6 x 8 1/4 in. photograph of theater entrance, “The Star,” owned by W.L. Foster, Wilkes-Barre, PA.

6 x 8 in. photograph of stables owned by W.L. Foster, Bolivar, NY.

6 x 8 in. photograph of men in a machine shop.

4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. photograph of women working in the back room tailoring clothing. One of the calendars is for 1915. Probably Ohio or Western PA.

6 x 8 in. photograph of shoe manufacturing and/or repair. A line of machines with shoes lined up on shelf above.

7 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. photograph of people shipping peaches.

7 x 8 1/2 in. photograph of print shop with composing trays, boxes of letters.

6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. photograph of four people standing on an oil derrick (two are women). Other derricks in background.

6 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. photograph of oil derrick gushing “crude” with date of July 23, ’07.

Together, 23 photographs, condition generally fair to good. Some mounts with significant wear.

Some a bit rough, especially mounts. Overall the images are fine.

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Some a bit rough, especially mounts. Overall the images are fine.

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American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - OCCUPATIONAL]. A group of 23 photographs, including:

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