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Lot 324
Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
600
Price Realized
$793
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. A collection of photographs incl. RPPCs featuring western scenes and more.
16 real photo postcards, most postally unused, featuring subjects including: female rider Ruth Roach, "Lady Champion," and her horse Buster. -- A dog riding a donkey. -- A group of people outside of a theater with signage advertising, "Electric Theatre, Continuous Performance." -- The interior of a saddle shop. -- Miss Lulu B. Parr, a "Bucking Bronco rider, Col. Cummins Wild West, England 1908." -- Two men, one on a horse and the other on an "Indian" motorbike. -- A group of men mounted on horseback outside of a storefront captioned, "C7 Boys Ready To Leave Town Morristown S. D." -- A street in Rosebud, MT. -- A white man driving 3 Native American subjects dressed in traditional garb in a car with "Atkinson's Wild West Circus" painted on the side. -- And many others.
2 postcard-sized silver gelatin images, one showing a fixed wing plane and identified by accompanying printed paper slip as an original photograph of the flight of Louis Paulhan, the first to fly in Colorado on 3 February 1910. The other showing what appears to be an early motorized emergency response vehicle complete with alarm bell, ladder, axe, and large headlights.
A cabinet card featuring an unusual looking bicycle with tubes just below the seat and handlebars, and a set of tools on the ground below. Reading, PA: New York Gallery, n.d. Photographer's imprint on mount recto and verso.
9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. mounted silver gelatin photograph on larger cardstock mount (some spotting, soiling). Image features a street scene in Kingman, Arizona, showing a large team of horses attached to a few wagons just outside of a storefront with large sign reading, "Lovin & Withers."




