A collection of photos, ephemera and a remarkable handwritten account of a Dutch/American young woman’s return from the Netherlands to the United States in May, 1941. Detroit resident, Flora Von Weiler (Married name Flora Von Weiler Arnoldi), who was born in 1920 in the Netherlands, moved to the United States.....
A collection of just under 100 handwritten letters written between 1860 to 1898. Many of the letters are still folded within the small envelopes that they were sent in. Some have had their stamps cut out, and some letters are without envelopes and there are some empty envelopes. Most of.....
1960s woodblock signed proof of John F. Kennedy by artist Mervin Jules. Jules was an artist known as a painter, print maker, illustrator and educator. Much of his work focused on social commentary. Including the matte, it measures about 20.5” x 39.5,” and without the matte.....
A group of over sixty-five 5"x7" photos showing construction of aqueducts and tunnels in Massachusetts. I believe that this was the beginning of the construction of the water system from the Quabbin to Boston for their drinking water, and each photo is identified within the negative, though there is no.....
There are over 200 photos on fifty pages in this late 1910s to mid 1920s photo album, which looks to have been kept by an English Officer in British India. There are military expeditions documented from Iraq, India and Pakistan, along with some family photos. "W.J. (or y?) Colyer, RA".....
1915-190 photo album which looks back at one man’s life. The first page lists the contents, which says “Friends, relatives and sweethearts, radios I have built.” There is a photo of the owner’s high school diploma, which lists his name as Robert Barry Kennedy, Jr., and he was from Chicago.....
A mostly 1890s photo album with photos from Quebec and New England, including Jackson, NH, Isle of Shoals, Rockport, MA, New Castle, NH, Concord, MA, Milton, MA, etc. There is one loose 5.25” x 8.25” Boudoir cabinet card photo of a couple in a horse drawn carriage, which is identified.....
5.75" x 8" leather bound photo album with sixty-five photos and a couple of postcards from the US Coast Guard Iceberg Patrol Ship the USS Mendota from around 1930. There are ten snapshots of sailors with icebergs and other fantastic shots of the interior and exterior of the ship, along.....
There are about 140 snapshots that range in size from about 2.75” x 3.75” to 5” x 7” in this 7.25” x 11.5” photo album that is complete and shows work at a Civilian Conversation Corps in Idaho and California in 1935. The Dealer that I bought this.....
Photo album from the 1920s which is well annotated with photos from the western US and includes scenes from the movie sets "Thief of Bagdad," Moran and the Marines," "Hell's Angels" and "Revenge." There are shots from the Francis Cam disaster in Santa Paula, CA. Also shown are scenes from.....
This album contains photos and ephemera tracking Bernard D. Sawicki’s time as a student in the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland from 1949 to 1950. On the inside of the front cover is a “Welcome to Annapolis, Maryland” postcard and empty corner tabs. The album contains over 200 black.....
The collection consists of 4 binders kept in 2 plastic cases; the binders hold around 750 black and white and color photos in plastic sleeves with four slots. Some slots have multiple photos in them and some slots are empty. The photos show equipment used in laboratories and microscope photos.....
6.75 x 8.5” notebook with a brownish paper covers on which is written “John Reiner, Class 4-2-2, Miss Pflurger.” The cover is worn and slightly stained, with bent corners and some tearing at the spine. The notebook contains John’s writing and drawing assignments from 1944. John lived in New York.....
10.5 x 7.25” black album with “Photographs” in faded white on the cover. This album appears to have been compiled by “Babs” Sturgis, identified by a place card for a reunion found within the album, and she identifies herself in annotations as a young girl that appears in several photos.....
10 x 7” string-bound album with a light blue cover, darker blue decorative motif in the center, and “Photographs” written in gold in the lower right corner. Contains about 400 black and white photos, including many contact prints with several enlarged photos. There are notes from this budding photographer on.....
15 x 11.5” string-bound white album with “Photographs” on the front in gold, with a floral pattern around the border of the cover. On the inside front cover is written: “Presented to Edna on July 2, 1940 on her birthday by her Papa.” Contains 42 photos, including one hand-tinted photograph.....
Circa 1950s, 9.5 x 11” black 2-ring binder that features a series of 30 charming illustrations depicting pregnancy as akin to going to war. The illustrations are done in pencil and pen, and while they are rather simple, they are packed with character and humor. Each illustration is accompanied by.....
8.5 x 6.25” album missing its front and back cover; the spine is brown. Contains around 54 black and white photos held to the black pages with corner tabs. Corner tabs also hold the typed annotations, which identify the locations in the photos as parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and.....
14.75 x 11.25” album with a navy blue over and “Photographs” written in gold. This album only has a front cover, as the back cover is missing; as such, the pages are not bound. The album has 68 photos that date from the early 1900s, inserted into square pockets on.....
5.5” x 12” notebook with 154 handwritten pages that appear to be a Nurses log from a hospital ward in New Jersey. The dealer I bought this from told me that he thought it was from Overbrook Asylum in Essex County, NJ, and he has written that in pencil on.....
A challenging album of often arresting and exceptionally well crafted, frequently bizarre photographs captured by a Harold Finke (1908-1999) of Bennet, Nebraska during a fishing expedition centered around a small cabin on a nearby stretch of the Missouri River. The album is full and includes 77 black and white 8x10.....
4.25" x 6.75" cabinet card photo of a woman reading a letter. It is signed on the verso, "Yours very faithfully, Florence L. Barclay." The photo is credited to Emberson, London. Barclay (1862-1921) was an English author, who took up writing when she was bedridden in her 40s. She.....
Collection of more than 400 black and white photos spread across 5 albums which show the experience of an unidentified American family during the U.S. occupation of Germany after World War I, with photographs ranging in date from 1916 to 1922. Many of the photos are from an area now.....
15.25 x 11.25” string-bound brown photo album with “Philippines” written on the cover in gold lettering. Taped to the inside front cover is a clipping about the Philippines and pages of black and white photos of post-war Manila. The album appears to have belonged to Margaret E. Brown, whose portrait.....
8" x 30" panoramic photo of a group of people seated on bleachers captioned "National Association of Amusement Parks Convention at Olympic Park, Irvington-Maplewood, NJ, Aug. 19th 1931." It is credited to A. Fishdein of Olympic Park, who must have been a staff photographer. In the upper right hand corner.....