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 over 100 mixed media drawings in these two 11” x 14” sketchbooks belonging to a young artist named Susie Mercier from Royal Oak, Michigan. The drawings are fabulously detailed for such a young hand, and many drawings demonstrate wonderfully observant eye. In particular, her understanding of both human.....
Four circa 1880s 4.25" x 6.5" cabinet card photos which are credited to Pach Brothers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each of the men are identified in pen, and include: Francis Brown - Professor of Philosophy (William Watson) Goodwin - Professor of Greek Charles Franklin Dunbar - Professor of Political Economy.....
There are fifty-three original photographs of people, places and things in Thailand, sent as Real Photo Postcards with typewritten notes on the back in this captivating collection made by Harry Everett Lyndes, Jr., during his time stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War. The photos, most measuring 5” x 7”.....
There are over 230 photos in this 9.5” x 12” green faux leather album, documenting what appears to be a business trip of an employee or associate of the company Courtaulds Inc. to a newly opened plant in Alabama, as well as other travel shots from around the country. The.....
There are ninety pieces of original art in this fabulous 1930’s-40’s art student’s portfolio collection. Rhoda Elliott Jr. III of Winchester, Massachusetts, a dedicated pupil of art, fashion and design, took courses at a young age at both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts College of Art and.....
A sweet photo album which dates from 1912-1924, shows a family spending their summers in Gloucester and eastern Massachusetts. There are photos of summer cottages, rocky shores, the Long Beach Hotel(destroyed April 1913, photo taken in 1912), children and lots of fun times. The album measures 7.25" x 11.25" and.....
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here…” is how the two women, roommates in Ward 24 at Smith College, introduce readers to this fantastically funny album. Pictured are 15 moments of dorm room hilarity describing daily life, from champagne aided studies, to champagne aided relaxation, to champagne aided psychotic breaks.....
AFRICA - ZANZIBAR MOMBASA ETC. EARLY 1900s PHOTO ALBUM Item #155 An incredible collection of twenty-three 9” x 11.5” disbound photo album pages with about seventy-five photos of various sizes, mostly from Africa. They date from about 1895 to 1910 and depict both incredible portraits of people, groups.....
Two 9.5" x 11.5" photo albums with 125 color snapshots which belonged to a soldier in the Vietnam War. The cover of one album has an illustration of a map and says "Memory of South Vietnam." On the first page of the other album, there is a slip of paper.....
This fantastically fun photo album belonged to a sailor from Long Island, New York, and showcases his time in the South Pacific. The album measures 8.25" x 11.5" with a suede and cloth backed snap-closure cover, with 220 black and white photos of various sizes within. The suede cover is.....
A series of photos showing children popping balloons, by Charlie Miller (C.E. Miller). There are 8" x 10 photos and contact sheets, mostly from 1972. Also included is a sign in sheet for parents of children that were photographed and a page of handwritten details about one of the children.....
11.5” x 15.5” lacquer covered photo album with about 145 snapshots which belonged to a fella in the air force in Vietnam. Three men are identified: T. Sergeant Taylor, M Sergeant Summerfield and S. Sergeant Russell. There are photos of jeeps, planes, a “VC killed,” Nam Hong Bar, USO Cantho.....
Collection of fourteen circa 1930s, 3" x 15" snapshots that appear to be from a US Serviceman in China. Two photos feature a Chinese dwarf.
Seventy-five loose photos of various sizes. Some of the smaller photos came in a USA Consular Service envelope with writing which says “Soldiers from revolution: China, Russian, German, English.” Several of the photos are numbered and have descriptions including: Hankow river flood, rioters viewing three corpses on Bund, view of.....
A collection of doodles, notes and photos that belonged to Albert Dorne (1904-1965). Included in this personal collection are 65 flower delivery cards sent to his wife, with 47 of those having doodles or drawings on them. Most of these appear to be self-portraits of Dorne, and in many of.....
There are 28 sheets in this funny little collection of ~ 4” x 6” illustrations by prolific and celebrated American author Paul Horgan. Dedicated to a friend (“to amuse Bud Crampton intermittently, Autumn, 1969”) Horgan combines hand drawn and inked caricatures with typewritten captions to poke fun at some of.....
There are eighty-eight photographs measuring 3.375” x 5” in this voyeur’s collection of hunky men in the streets of 1970’s summertime New Orleans. These sneaky street photos include photos of individuals and couples standing and walking around, men in various uniforms at work (including a group of Naval officers, a......
A lot of photos and some ephemera, that detail the life of Howard J Seibel (1904-1965), who owned a Gulf Gas Station in Springfield, MA. As evidenced in this collection, he was a wrestler, boxer, hockey player and auto racer, who was from South Hadley, Ma. Featured are beautiful real.....
12" x 14.5" photo album and scrapbook that show a Long Island Press reporter team coverage of the 1956 Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and the Democratic convention that year in Chicago. Photos are from the event floor and the press rooms. They show politicians.....
There are over 250 photographs in this exciting 1920s 7" x 11" photo album, from a deft eye capturing landscapes and notable places speeding by from a train ride across the interior of Canada. The album begins with a race between two railroad companies, Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National.....
A collection of 91 snapshots which belonged to an American Soldier, who was at Buchenwald Concentration camp in March, 1945, near the end of World War II. Two photos show naked bodies, with descriptions including "Dead bodies on broken down Heinie vehicle ready for cremation," and "Buchenwald Concentration camp. Bodies.....
Yeehaw! Rodeo circuit photos of riders from rodeos in Arizona, California, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ohio, New York, Delaware, Mexico, etc. This scrapbook, put together by Jack "Pecos" Whatley, a rodeo circuit cowboy. It documents his co-riders and friends traveling around the country. Amazing snaps of bull riders mid-fall and mid-ride.....
There are over 100 sketches, chalk pastel drawings, and watercolor, oil and ink paintings by the American author Nelia Gardner White (1894-1957) of New Hartford, CT, in this artist portfolio archive. Included are what appear to be self-portraits, as well as many portraits of children and other people. Also in.....
Over 175 unique drawings and doodles from this anonymous amateur artist, mostly on restaurant order slips, exploring and experimenting in a range of themes and drawing styles. Mediums used are ballpoint pen, pencil, markers and collage. Drawings are signed DR and dated between 1988 – 1993. The waiter/artist explores primarily.....