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Lot 735
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 8 occupational photographs, comprising:
Sixth plate tintype portrait of 5 serious looking men wearing wide-brimmed hats; matted, but no cover glass or case (image a bit dark). -- 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. photograph on cardstock mount of a group of builders posed before a home under construction, with their tool chests. Waseca, MN: A.J. Lawin (spotting to mount recto and verso, corner and edge wear) -- 3 photographs showing employees and customers posed before and inside the business, "F. Johnson, General Blacksmith, Horseshoeing & Plowwork," 8 x 6 in., or smaller, on cardstock mounts (light surface soiling; edge and corner wear to mounts). Two of the scenes include manuscript identifications to verso, "Frank Johnson Blacksmith Shop, Champion, Alberta," one dated ca 1912. -- 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. photograph on cardstock mount showing a group of loggers with saws and other tools. Grand Rapids, MN: The Zenith View & Portrait Co. (light edge and corner wear to mount). -- 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. photograph on cardstock mount of group of men with woman near a mineshaft, two horses near foreground (light surface soiling; corner loss to mount). -- 4 7/8 x 4 in. photograph on cardstock mount providing interior view of men at work on a factory line (fading to print; loss to lower right corner of print and mount).
Together, 8 photographs, in generally good condition unless otherwise noted.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.














