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Lot 267
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$671
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. An assortment of nude imagery incl. CDVs, stereoviews, postcards, and more.
7 CDVs of women posed half or mostly nude in various reclining positions, some with props, 5 of which feature the same woman. One of the CDVs bears "Beauties of Nature" series title with inscription below reading "No 10." -- 15 stereoviews featuring the same woman posing half nude in various positions on the floor, each bearing a copyright symbol with year 1926 and company initials "IMRCo" in the negative. -- 4 postcards featuring the same man and woman, sometimes joined by another man, in explicitly sexual positions. -- 12 mostly unmounted images of nude women posed in various positions and with various props. The processing of the images, including a softening of the background, gives them an ethereal quality. -- A cabinet card featuring a nude woman reclining in profile on a lounge chair covered with a blanket. She pulls at a veil or some other gauzy material covering part of her head. Mount recto printed "Studie Etude." -- 7 approx. 8 x 10 in. photographs featuring Olive Ann Alcorn in the nude, with applied color. All copyrighted by Alta, San Francisco. -- Together, 46 photographic prints.
Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey
This lot is located in Cincinnati.




