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Lot 109
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 -
300
Price Realized
$219
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 53 CDVs, cabinet cards, and large format photographs featuring portraits of groups and individuals, incl. postmortem views.
Highlights include:
2 postmortem photographs: cabinet card of infant in stroller surrounded by flowers; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. photograph on 12 x 14 in. mount of young adult male surrounded by flowers.
7/8 x 1 1/8 in. “gem-sized” photo of young man.
5 CDVs, with photographers’ imprints of: [New York]: Howell, [William R.] --Columbus, OH: M.M. Griswold. -- Baltimore, MD: Norval H. Busey. -- Batavia, OH: A.A. Addis. -- Columbus, OH: Walker & Lund.
12 cabinet cards, including 2 photographs of young men, possibly in clerical collars. St. Louis, MO: F.W. Guerin. -- 2 photographs of Hon. M.R. Dougherty, Columbus Ohio and his wife. N.p.: n.p., 3 December 1883. -- 2 cabinet cards, one of two boys identified as Trofford Tallmadge and Benson Hodges, and a second with the same boys and an older couple. Bucyrus, OH: D. Brenner. -- Cabinet card of older gentleman. Holland, MI: J. LaFayette. -- Portrait of middle-aged woman holding another cabinet photo. Amherst, Nova Scotia: D.R. Ridham. -- Portrait of young man on fancy card mount. Chicago, IL: Stevens, McVicker’s Theatre.
3 postcards: one a mother and daughter, a home, probably in New Brighton, NY, with genealogical information in lower margin, and circular images of young man with “3/18/07” in pencil upper left.
3 postcards: one a mother and daughter, a home, probably in New Brighton, NY, with genealogical information in lower margin, and circular images of young man with “3/18/07” in pencil upper left.
23 images ranging from 5 x 7 in. to 8 x 10 in. Photographs include cart decked out for a parade (including the mule towing it). -- A North Carolina railroad and a family of “mountain folk.” -- Full plate tintype copy of a photo. -- 5 photographs in professional folders of a couple and young boy. Credits include Terkelson & Henry and Whigham, both from San Francisco, CA.



