Small group consisting of a black-and-white snapshot photograph, handwritten note, and original mailing envelope, sent from San Francisco to South Glastonbury, Connecticut, in October 1969. The snapshot shows a casually dressed man standing outdoors in a wooded or brushy setting. The accompanying handwritten card asks the recipient to call him.....
Substantial archive of 1960s and early 1970s gay male erotic mail-order promotional material, largely centered on physique photography, “male art,” color slides, photo sets, illustrated stories, erotic booklets, and adult catalogs. The group includes 12 original mailing envelopes with contents inside, along with additional loose order forms, circulars, catalogs, flyers.....
Vintage Bauer & Black promotional medical booklet titled “What Every Man Should Know About Suspensories,” issued by the Research Laboratories of Bauer & Black, Division of The Kendall Company, Chicago. Copyright 1951. The booklet explains the value of a suspensory/supporter for protection, strain relief, and athletic or everyday wear.....
Unusual group of mid-century medical/sexology-related ephemera, found together inside an old magazine. The lot includes a typed letter dated September 13, 1949 from Hartford, Connecticut, written to a “Mr. Francis” in response to an inquiry about a severe genital injury. The writer discusses traumatic epididymitis, bilateral testicular infarction, permanent sterility.....
lot of three vintage Personal Problem Library booklets published by Sexology Magazine, New York. Included are: Volume I: Sex Physique Averages by S. H. Aurelle, M.D. Volume II: The Truth About “Self-Abuse” by David H. Keller, M.D., and other eminent sexologists Volume III: Unsuccessful Husbands by Winfield Scott Pugh.....
A remarkable 1920s vernacular photograph album containing approximately 330 photographs and photo postcards, plus 7 regular postcards and additional souvenir images, maps, tickets, hotel cards, and travel ephemera not included in the count. The album measures about 10.25" x 12.5", with photographs of various sizes mounted to black paper pages.....
This 8" x 33" black-and-white panoramic photograph shows a large group portrait of boys, counselors, and staff posed outdoors at Camp Ropioa in 1952. A sign at the front reads “1952 CAMP ROPIOA,” and the image is signed in the negative by photographer F. A. Schroeder of Jamaica, N.Y. The.....
Wonderful 1930s vernacular snapshot album kept by Esther Harrington, a prolific amateur woman photographer associated with Worcester and Orange, Massachusetts. The album begins with a charming hand-lettered poem: “Esther has a little box and how she makes it click! She’s taken many thousand shots…” The album contains over.....
A vivid late-1970s to early-1980s African American family photograph album and related scrapbook material, with strong New York-area theater, soul, R&B, disco, and popular entertainment content. The lot consists of one small photo album with dog cover, together with a group of loose scrapbook / album pages that came with.....
An extensive and well-captioned 1916-1918 travel and family photograph album containing approximately 270 original photographs, documenting journeys across Canada and portions of the United States, with especially strong coverage of Banff, Lake Louise, Regina, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Vancouver, Chicago, Milwaukee, Montana, and Washington State. The album measures.....
Album measuring approximately 7.25" x 10", gray cloth boards stamped “Photographs” in gilt, containing about 235 original photographs mounted to black paper leaves. The family was from Orange, Massachusetts, and many photographs are captioned in white ink. Nothing appears to be missing, and the final few pages are unused...
Group of seventy original 5" x 5" black-and-white photographs, apparently taken in Pakistan in April 1963. Fifty of the photographs retain typed caption slips mounted below the images; the remaining twenty were either never identified or have lost their captions. The captioned images include excellent mid-century views of Gulberg /.....
Late 19th-century naval travel scrapbook / photograph album, measuring 10.25" x 12.5", containing 44 photographs, many hand-colored albumen or commercial travel photographs measuring approximately 8" x 10" and 3.5" x 5", mounted to album leaves. The inside front cover bears a faint pencil ownership inscription apparently reading “W. H. Garner.....
Student manuscript botany notebook from Emporia High School, measuring 6.75" x 8", in gray string-tied wrappers titled “Botany Note Book.” The title page is inscribed “Fall Term / Botany I / Pratt Slough.” The notebook is divided into sections including leaves, modified parts, seeds and fruit, and mosses and ferns.....
Personal photograph album, 7” x 11”, containing more than 350 original photographs mounted to black paper leaves, with ten Mount Holyoke College postcards. Most photographs are glued to the pages. Three photographs are lacking. Covers heavily worn and detached, with substantial surface loss to front cover; contents generally intact, with.....
The album documents several decades of outdoor sporting trips, largely in California and the West, with approximately 103 photographs total: 86 mounted/glued to pages and 17 loose photographs. Locations include Esparto/Yolo County, Clear Lake, Carquinez Strait, Napa River, Big Sur/Willow Creek near Gorda, Fort Bragg, Grand Island, Vallejo, Sierra, Arizona’s.....
Twenty-one original black-and-white photographs, each 3.5" x 5", documenting an anti-nuclear protest at Rocky Flats, Colorado, likely 1978. The images show poets, musicians, speakers, protestors, and crowds gathered near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, with views of the surrounding Colorado landscape, electrical structures, banners, and handmade signs. Several.....
Large mid-century celluloid-over-metal portrait plaque featuring a formal studio portrait of an African American man in suit, tie, and wire-rim glasses. The sepia-toned image is set within a rounded rectangular black plaque with a gold inner border. The reverse is black embossed metal with a raised oval impression and decorative.....
This worn but remarkable early 20th-century photograph album contains 174 photographs, with the central and most compelling section devoted to Cornell University student and fraternity life in 1904 and 1905. The album appears to have belonged to a male Cornell student connected with Sigma Chi, and includes unusually lively documentation.....
Substantial vernacular photograph album documenting a socially lively and mobile circle of family and friends in California and Chicago between 1919 and 1923, with strong content relating to early automobile touring, outdoor recreation, women outdoors, California beach culture, Big Bear, Santa Monica / Ocean Park, and urban sightseeing. The.....
A richly assembled 1930s Colorado Springs high school memory scrapbook kept by Lorene Elizabeth Duckels, a Palmer High School student whose album preserves an unusually vivid record of school life, friendship, dances, clubs, plays, graduations, parties, outings, and young womanhood from the early 1930s into the 1940s. The green.....
An exceptional 1932 naval aviation album documenting operations aboard and around the U.S.S. Langley, the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, during maneuvers and travel through Florida, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Virginia, Maine, California, and other locations. The album belonged to J. R. Hughes of the U.S.S. Langley, whose name and.....
Oblong string-tied photograph album, 13 x 10 1/4 inches, containing 79 mounted sepia photographs on 14 black paper leaves. Photographs range from approx. 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches to 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches, secured with corner mounts. A shortened introductory leaf is hand-captioned: “Saguenay River and Gaspé.....
Large mounted theatrical portrait photograph of James R. Waters, boldly captioned “The Hebrew and Italian Comedian.” Waters was known for ethnic character comedy routines on the vaudeville, burlesque, and legitimate theater stages, and his career reportedly included international appearances in England and Australia. He was especially associated with Jewish and.....
Remarkable mid-20th century archive relating to operatic tenor Albin Werner of Northampton, Massachusetts, later active in New York performance circles. Werner’s name appears in contemporary programs and records as “Alan,” “Allen,” or “Allan” Werner, though family provenance identifies his given name as Albin. The album cover page is inscribed, “This.....