A collection of 1980s art and a few pages of a typewritten manuscript of a sci-fi story called Star Force. There are 68 pages of comic book-style art, most drawn on the back of papers given out to residents of Homestead Village in Coram, NY, and some of the pages.....
A circa 1900 catalog of Steel & Wound Strings from the National String Co., New Brunswick, NJ and London. It has 56 pages and measures 9" x 12." Also included are six 8.25" x 10.5" mounted photographs and two loose 7" x 8.75" photos of workers (including women) in the.....
There are over two hundred large black and white photos across three bound books, two envelopes, and two folders in this well preserved construction archive. Photos are process and finished construction photos of buildings across New York – primarily Queens and Long Island – built by Frank A. Droesch, Inc.....
There are seventy-eight black and white and color photographs, and some newspaper clippings and ephemera, in this fun, fantastical grouping. The archive is a collection of photos of carnival paintings – of signs and banners, murals on the sides of traveling trucks, paintings on booths and kiosks, a faux-cave painted.....
There are fifty-one black and white photographs, mostly 5”x7”, as well as ephemera, across loose and bound pages filling this fantastic 7.25” x 11” black book cloth covered 1922 circus photo album. On the inside cover is pasted a sticker with a typewritten description of the album, reading “Presented to.....
There are forty-two images, photographs, newspaper photographs, and real photo postcards in this thoroughly annotated tribute album to Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987). She was a public conservative republican figure, the first woman appointed to a major US ambassadorial position abroad (Ambassador to Italy), Congresswoman, author and playwright of the 1936.....
7.75" x 9.75" signed photo of actress Barbara Leonard, signed in 1929. Back stamp for "Lansing Brown Portrait." Written in pencil is "Barbara Leonard in Shannons of Broadway, El Capitan." She was quite the stunner. Small spot on her forehead as seen in scan.
Two photos taken from a photo album, which show the solar eclipse of 1932. They each measure about 3.75" x 5,"and have hand written captions: "The camera saw too much sun and became fog-eyed," and "Looking at the eclipse of the sun, August 31, 19.." I can't make out the.....
Two original photos of Julian Eltinge, both in and out of costume. Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941), born William Julian Dalton, was an American stage and film actor and female impersonator. The photo of Eltinge out of of costume, measures just under 8" x 10" and.....
There are eight, 8" x 9.75" linen backed photographs dated between 1922-1923. Each photo is identified in the bottom right corner, and show work being done by the James Steward & Company Contractors for the Gulf Refining Company at the Port Arthur Wharf. Port Arthur was incorporated as a city.....
8" x 10" photo of silent film actress Theda Bara. Stamped on the verso is "Miss Bara, Fox, How's the Eternal Triangle." Her name is also there written in pencil, and "Barbara Kitson, 1917" is written in pen along the top. My guess is that this is from "The Eternal.....
4.25" x 6.5" cabinet card photo of an unidentified woman strumming the banjo. Other instruments sit at her feet. The photo is not credited. Some light foxing.
8" x 10" photo of a young Bette Davis inscribed "To Warner Bros., from Bette Davis." It is copyright 1934 and has a stamp on the verso for Dell Publsihing Company.
Two 7.5" x 9.75" photos of a young girl on 11" x 14" mounts. Each photo is signed by Ilse Bing and dated 1946 on the top of each photo. In very good condition.
A lot of about 95 snapshots from an excursion to the west and what looks to be mostly Arizona. Shots show a rodeo, bull riding, rope tricks, indigenous structures, trail riding, cock fighting, mountains and desert landscapes, excavations, etc. A few are date stamped 1935 and some have notations on.....
“History of Costume by Gertrude Balentine, 2nd year Costume Design, January, 1942,” and “Fashions from Past to Present by Tru Balentine,” begin this delightful school assignment kept in a 9.75” x 11.5” loose-leaf notebook with over 45 watercolors/pen and ink costume designs, with another 90 pages or so of handwritten.....
There are fifty one beautiful cyanotypes in this neat little paperbound album from one family in the very pastoral summer of 1902. The album measures 7” x 10”, with a gray embossed paper cover and 16 cream paper pages adorned with impeccable pen and ink script annotations, and often the.....
There are one hundred and nineteen fabulous black and white photographs of various sizes in this archive collection of the Brass City Dance Roller Skating Club, as well as four newspaper clippings. The photos date from 1947 – 1955 and range in size from 2.5” x 3.5” to 8” x......
There are over 170 photographs in this amazing two album collection documenting photographic experiments, camera parts and repairs, new inventions as well as a few shots of the repairmen at work from the famed and beloved Professional Camera Repair Service shop in New York City. Started and run by repairman.....
7" x 10.25" photo album with 32 pages 75 photos of various sizes inside from 1943-1944. This album was kept by an unidentified young woman which shows her friends and family who were in the service during World War II. There are pictures of her with the men and others.....
There are thirty-four black and white photographs, mostly measuring 3.75” x 4.75”, in this lovely red velvet covered travel album from the early 1900’s. The album is bookbound with the embossed red velvet cover pasted onto thick paper covers, and measures 8” x 10.5”. The 33 pages are blue paper.....
There are forty-eight sepia toned photographs measuring 2” x 3”, and one panorama measuring 2” x 5.375”, in this neat little album from Buffalo, NY, 1901. The album is in the form of a clothbound book, measuring 5.25” x 7.25”, and has been wonderfully preserved. The 24 pages are thick.....
There are 125 snapshots in this 9.5" x 12.5" photo album. Written on the inside cover is "Bishop Creek Mine, Inyo County, California, July 1931, June 1932." The first page shows "The Gang" that went on fishing trips to the Bishop Creek Mine. The first 100 or so photos of.....
11.5" x 15.25" photo album with close to 400 photos inside. The first 165 photos or so, show images from Wellesley College with buildings on Campus, Freshaman and Senior Day Mistresses, May Day, Semi-centennial, members of Noanett House, Stone Hall Fire, a play, house parties, commencement in 1927, "President Pen".....
A delightful collection of drawings in a sketchbook and loose, done by Charles J. Anderson of Providence, Rhode Island. The 7" x 9.75" sketchbook has 23 drawings, on one side of the page only and there are 16 loose sketches measuring in size from 3" x 3.75" to 11" x......