MAN WEARING FACE MASK c. 1918 PHOTO SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC
2.625" x 4.25" circa 1918 snapshot of a man wearing a face mask, during the Spanish flu pandemic. In good overall condition.
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1961 MEXICO, MAINE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PLAY PHOTOS - ROMANOFF AND JULIET
Twelve 4" x 5" snapshots of "Romanoff and Juliet, sophomore class play, 1961," which is printed on the border of each photo. The photos come in a photo developing envelope with "L. Stanley" written on it. The photos were found in a photo album, which belonged to Linda Stanley of.....
UK NORTH SEA FORTIES OIL FIELD PHOTOGRAPHS from 1974
Eleven black and white photographs, mostly measuring 8.5” x 6.5," with one measuring 6.5" x 6.5." They show British Petroleum photo documentation of BP Forties Field drilling platform in United Kingdom, North Sea, in 1974. Photos focus on the jacket section of the production platform immediately before the platform is.....
1950s MAIL ART from a LOVE STRUCK MAN TO HIS GIRLFRIEND NYC to CT
A delightful collection of 18 pieces of art, including 15 envelopes, two portrait photos and one Valentine's card sent from Alan in the Bronx to Heather, who was attending the University of Connecticut in the mid 1950s. The 15 envelopes have gone through the US Mail and have postmarks, though.....
GEOLOGIST & GOLD MINER - ROCKY MOUNTAINS c. 1940s PHOTO COLLECTION
Thirteen photos, including nine real photo postcards and four snapshots. All but one have a typed identification on the front or back. A few mention C.M. Massey, who was a Geologist. Gold mining, the Rockies, and Placer Claims are mentioned. The snapshots measures 3.5" x 5.75" and the real photo.....
HAWAIIAN CHINESE JIMMY AKAU HAND-TINTED PHOTO by TERRY OGDEN 1962
10.5" x 13" hand-tinted photo mounted on semi-rigid paper measuring 14.75" x 19." Writing on the front and back indicate that the subject is Jimmy Akau, a Hawaiian Chinese man, and the photo was taken by Terry Ogden, whose label on the verso show that he was a Camera Portraitist.....
JOHN LENNON VIGIL DAKOTA APARTMENT BUILDING PHOTOS 1980 PHOTOS NYC
Twelve 3.5" x 3.5" snapshots taken outside of the Dakota apartment building on West 79th Street in New York City, after the death of Beatle, John Lennon. Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980, and these photos are from shortly after and some may be from the vigil in Central.....
NEW ORLEANS MAN CLEANS SIDEWALK - c. 1870s DRAWING SKETCHED FROM LIFE
5.5" x 9" drawing of a man cleaning the sidewalk. Written on the verso is "Forcing the water to run in the gutters at New Orleans, LA. Sketched from life. Buckingham." Note the woman with the bustles in the background. Upper right corner chip and discoloration to the ride side.....
1912 THROUGH THE CANADIAN ROCKIES PHOTO ALBUM
10” x 8” homemade paperbound photo-book of twenty 3” x 5” snapshot photographs, captured en route to the National Electric Light Association Convention of 1912. “A Memory of 1912” handwritten in black ink on the cover. The cover also indicates the date of composition as January 1, 1913 by the.....
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MASSACHUSETTS 1887
11” x 9 7/8” album with gilt-edged stiff, thick rigid pages and marbled end pages. 11 leaves/ 22 pages. The first and largest photograph is of Charles Johnson Noyes , Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1887. The following images are composite photos featuring head.....
USS NORTH DAKOTA 1922 PHOTO ALBUM - SAILORS in CUBA, ST. THOMAS, etc.
There are 75 photographs of sailors on the U.S.S. North Dakota in the year 1922. The focus of many photographs depict officers during periods of recreation: riding horses on the beach, visiting monuments, or otherwise terrestrial. One photo is of the “Bluebeard’s Castle” in St. Thomas, a few others look.....
MID 1920s GORDON KS SCHOOL GIRL PHOTO ALBUM
5.75” x 7.5” photo album from the mid 1920s, with about 85 photos of various sizes, which are mostly held to the page with corner tabs. There are a few very small photos (not in the count) which are part of a collage and glued to the page. The photos.....
PLYMOUTH WISCONSIN & CHICAGO PHOTO ALBUM EARLY 1900s. BICYCLE TEAM, CIRCUS +
11.25” x 13.75” early 1900s photo album with eighty-seven photos. They mostly measure about 3.75” x 4.75” with two smaller images. The album looks to have been put together by Marguerite Bade, who was born at a home on Caroline Street in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Many but not all photos are.....
1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION CYANOTYPE PHOTO ALBUM
There are about 170 cyanotype photos in this 9.5” x 12” photo album with rigid pages and a label with 1898 on the cover. There are no annotations, but there are recognizable photos from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago from 1893, including the Ferris wheel, the World’s Congress of Beauty.....
1910s MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE MAC PHOTO ALBUM - SPORTS
5.75” x 8” photo album with about 235 photos of various sizes, glued to the page. There is a card for Ralph Crissman Sweeney, attached to the front cover. Sweeney was born in 1896 in West Bay Michigan, and died in 1990 in Ingham, MI. This photo album dates from.....
MICHIGAN, OHIO 1920s-30s PHOTO ALBUM
10.25"X 13.25" photo album with about 475 photos, about 40 of which are loose in an enclosed envelope. The album dates from the mid 1920s to the mid 1930s, with the above mentioned envelope addressed to Mr. R. C. Sweeney, at the State Health Department in White Plains, NY. This.....
KYOTO JAPAN SCHOOL GIRL c. 1930s PHOTO ALBUM
7.25" x 11.25" photo album from Momoyama High School for Girls in Kyoto, Japan. It looks to be from the 1920s or 30s, and there are 24 photos of various sizes, all pasted to the page. A couple of pages look like a previous photo was removed in favor of.....
CHINESE SCHOOL GIRL'S 1960s PHOTO ALBUM in CHINA
10.25" x 13" photo album with around 425 photos of various sizes, from very small, about .5" x .5" to around 5" x 7" with most in between, though on the small side. There are school photos, class photos, a large drawing of a girl, photos by the Great Wall.....
1950 PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS NYC NOTEBOOK and PHOTOS ALBUM
7.5" x 9.75" Composition book with 101 pages used by Louis Nardello who took Mrs. Scottow's Photography class in E.R. 1512 at NYSP in Brooklyn, New York. There are many pages of notes and diagrams on photography along with 18 photos of various sizes, including a photo of his class.....
WISCONSIN MICHIGAN PHOTO ALBUM 1927-1928
7.25” x 11.25” photo album with seventy-six 2.75” x 4.5” snapshots with another four loose photos tucked inside. The album is completely annotated and tells the story of Vi and Bern, who started their life together in 1927 with their honeymoon in Wisconsin, including several photos from their time at.....
1921 PHOTO ALBUM – YELLOWSTONE, CALIFORNIA, BANFF etc
Photo album measuring 12 1/4” x 9 ½,” with 88 pages/44 leaves, with 420 photographs pasted to the page. Written inside the front cover is “Herbert R. Preston Jr., October, 1921, Catonsville, MD. Contents: Page 1-18 – The Yellowstone National Park, September, 1921…..Page 19-44, Banff, Lake Louise, Monterey, Santa.....
GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARK - SEQUIOA NATIONAL PARK 1933/1936 w/ HAND-DRAWN MAP
Fifty-five photographs on six 11” 14” album pages from a trip to the General Grant and Sequoia National Park from the year 1933 & 1936. The first page is decorated with a hand-drawn, detailed map of the parks’ trails and notable sites. Of those noteworthy places, several are pictured throughout.....
MOHEGAN LAKE SCHOOL BOYS MILITARY ACADEMY NY 1919-1927 SCRAPBOOK
Ira Strang, a dedicated student at the young boys military academy of Mohegan Lake School in New York compiled this scrapbook during the years 1919-1927. Ira “Shrimp” Strang was the Captain of the Midgets (junior varsity) football team during his early years. He showed great potential and promising.....
GAY MALE COUPLE AUGUST 1953 HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA PHOTO ALBUM
There are 106 photographs in this 10.25” x 11.5” photo album, which document the domesticity shared between a gay couple in Hollywood, California in 1953. The first page notes the date with a title: “Our Place” and includes their address. Each photograph is accompanied by an affectionate or humorous caption.....
1886-1901 WEST COAST, PRES. McKINLEY FUNERAL, TENNESSEE CAVES PHOTO ALBUM
There are 110, mostly albumen photographs, with a few cyanotypes and silver gelatin prints, that are glued down to stiff pages, in this 10.25” x 13.5,” album, which has 25 leaves/50 pages. The album begins with several photographs of the Williams Canyon in Colorado Springs, but soon takes a......