There are about 450 snapshots in these five, 1980s photo albums of dorm room life at RISD. Photos show students hanging out, doing drugs, climbing a bridge in Providence, etc. There are several artistic shots and a few photos working on art. None of the photos are identified. About a......
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1929. Chubb, Ida M. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1929. 9.5 x 12.5" book with color illustrations of little black children accompanied by poems in heavy dialect. Within the pages is an additional 5." x 7.5" card of a black child on a white chair. Both covers.....
8" x 10" mounted photo of a train crash or derailment. Written on the verso is "January 21, 1899, Wreck in Mexico." Light edge wear, in good overall condition.
Small archive of fifty-six 3.5” x 5.5” early 1900s photos from a trip to Norway. Almost all of the photos are identified with a handwritten caption on the verso. Fjords, glaciers, small towns and cities. A fascinating archive in good condition.
11” x 14” photo album with leather covers and gilded lettering to the cover which says “Cruise 1912 – Cuba, Panama, Jamaica. J. H. Fallon.” (Ancestry has a passenger arrival record for a John Fallon age 38 arriving in NYC 13 Feb 1912 from Havana Cuba on the SS Havana).....
9.25” x 11.5” photo album/scrapbook with over 100 photos, newspaper clippings and three drawings. There is a fabulous 5.75” x 8.75” broadside for a football game in 1915 between New Rochelle and Bridgeport Naval Militias and four of the photos are 8” x 10” shots showing inside the USS Granite.....
22" x 17" poster advertising an intensive five-week workshop in photography in Greece with Charles Harbutt and Garry Winogrand. It was sponsored by Panopticon, from Boston, Massachusetts. The poster is folded, otherwise, it is in good condition. Charles Henry Harbutt was an American photographer, a former president of Magnum.....
8.5" x 11" four-page art exhibition brochure and invitation to preview the show and meet the artists on November 4, 1977. The show was at the Wynn Bullock Gallery in Carmel California and featured the photographers JoAnn Frank, Sally Mann, and Jorgen Skogh. There is old damp staining the bottom.....
2.5" X 4.25" Carte de Visite photographer identified on the verso as the Searsport House, a summer resort in Searsport, Maine. In the photograph, there are people standing on the balcony, roof, and porch, and several names are written identifying people as well. You can also see the Livery Stable.....
There are about 210 photos in these two 10” x 12” mid 1970s photo albums. Written inside one of the album covers is “Stock Car Racing, Orange Country Speedway 73-74-75-76-77,” and includes the drivers names Buzzie Reutimann, Carl Fuzzy Van Horn, Bobbie Bottcher, Franky, Stan Sherrman, Jimmy Horten, Jr., and.....
Two albums from San Francisco dated 1964. Written inside the cover of the first album is “All references in these two albums may be found, explained in great detail, in the following book: A Guide to San Francisco and Bay Region, James Benet, Random House, New York, 1963.”...
There are about 175 snapshots in this 7” x 11” photo album kept by V. Leslie Hebert in 1929/1930. Written on the first page is “Traveling and working with the Davey Tree Expert Co,” and there is a also a sticker for the tree company, which was located in Kent.....
A group of 4" x 5.75" color snapshots date stamped 10/16/95. The photos show black men in Washington DC, and a quick search of the date tells you that it was the date of the Million Man March on Washington, DC, a gathering of African American men organized by Nation.....
5.75” x 8” photo album with twelve pages and eleven 3.5” x 5.75” photos, all identified. Written on the first page is “Personal views from my Hawaii album with Christmas greetings from Roger C. Rice. US Geological Survey, Christmas, 1915. Honolulu, T.H.” Photos include the Government Building, Judiciary Building.....
A collection of photos and negatives that appear to be from a Missionary in Ethiopia in the mid to late 1960s. There are several items dated 1967 and I saw at least one dated 1964. One envelope with 46 snapshots, is from E.J. Prebis, Gondar, Ethiopia to a Mrs. Virginia.....
5" x 8" ink drawing of an Eskimo blanket toss signed Robert Mayokok. Mayokok (1903-1983) lived in Anchorage, Alaska, and his drawings and paintings are vignettes of Eskimo life. He worked in India ink, acrylics, watercolors, and oils. Some fading to the paper on the back, where it looks like.....
In the art of the snapshot, here are 113 photos showing views of the schnoz before rhinoplasty surgery. Profiles and nostril views of women and men. Dates range from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, and eighty-seven photos measure 3.5" x 5" and twenty-six measure 2.375" x 3.5." Most.....
7.25” x 11.25” photo album with just under 300 photos inside, which appears to have belonged to A.L. Barabash, whose name is written on the inside cover along with “Some memories from Britannia Beach, Townsite, BC 1941.” The album dates from 1939-1942 and show fun with friends, military related images.....
Four 10.5" x 13.25" photos of a Lesbian protest on an unidentified city street. A banner reads "Lesbian Feminist Liberation '73." Another sign says "Lesbian Switchboard 741-2610." A Google search of the phone number brings up the Women's Liberation Center, which was founded in NYC in the early 1970s. The.....
There are one hundred photographs of various, but mostly larger sized photos, in this 10.25" x 13.5" photo album. The album shows the early building of warehouses "Bush Terminal" in Brooklyn, New York. Bush Terminal was unique from other rail-marine terminals in New York due to its distance from Manhattan.....
There are 77 photos in this 7.25” x 10” this circa 1910 photo album. Forty-eight photos are of antique furniture, most with typewritten paste-down identifications. Then there are some catalog or magazine cut-outs on antique furniture and in the back of the album are twenty-nine snapshots of a trip to.....
There are a total of about 120 photos in this complete album which shows summer camp Anawan for Girls, which was located on Lake Winnipeasukee in Meredith, NH. It dates to 1914, one year after this camp opened. The photos are various sizes, from smallish 2" x 3" to full.....
There are 54 photos and photo postcards, in this 6” x 9.5” photo album that documents a “Holiday in Mexico” in 1951. Places visited include Xochimilco, Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Touca, Acapulco, Taxco, etc. Besides the photos, there is a bunch of ephemera including an American Airlines menu, itinerary, airline ticket.....
7.5" x 11" photo album with about 120 photos of the Japanese military, family photos, and snaps of people having fun. One photo shows a medical student or Doctor with a cadaver. There are many annotations added, but I have no idea what they say. Also, around ten photos are.....
10" x 11.5" spiral bound photo album with 100 color and black and white snapshots from 1971/72 that show Boy Scout Troop 360 from Oakland, California. Outings, camping, learning skills, etc. Both black and white boys are members of this troop. A few photos have some light stains. The front.....