Antique and Vintage Photography ​

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Vintage and Antique Photography This email features photography as one of the dozens of categories of rare books and ephemera which are being uploaded for our next fair. We always attract a large group of collectors and dealers of vintage and antique photography so here are some of the early listings. Remember, no one has early access to the fairs. Everyone has an opportunity to be first to purchase a gem.   7th semi-annual Rare Book & PaperPalooza   Thursday January 16th 12:00 ET through Saturday January 18th 6:00 pm ET   Exhibitor Information Cabinet Photo Pawnee Bill & May Lillie – Wild West Show Stars by the Sword Brothers Nice cabinet photograph depicting Wild West Show stars Pawnee Bill and May Lillie. Gordon William Lillie (1860 – 1942), known professionally as Pawnee Bill, was an American showman and performer who specialized in Wild West Shows and was known for his short partnership with Buffalo Bill Cody. In 1888 A Narrative of the Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment, in the Spring and Summer of 1861-Unique Copy Woodbury, Augustus, Chaplain of the Regiment. A Narrative of the Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment, in the Spring and Summer of 1861. Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1862. Signed by John R. Bartlett at top right of the title page.  There are 17 tipped-in photographs in the book.  Tinting and Toning of Eastman Positive Motion Picture Film Eastman Kodak Rochester, N.Y. Eastman Kodak Company, 1927. Hardcover. Fourth edition revised. This book is 39 pp plus a 4-page foldout that contains 66 examples of tinted or toned nitrate film. A Very Scarce Volume. Brunswick Mills, Interior View, Nevada Carleton Watkins, San Francisco. This Silver Mining Mill was one of the largest in the Carson River Valley area. Image is in near mint condition. Buehman & Hartwell Cabinet Photo – White Mountain Apache Woman Studio Pose Tucson AZ, Buehman & Hartwell, 1885. Interesting studio pose of a White Mountain Apache Indian woman. She is in a very feather decorated outfit. She also hold numerous arrows in one hand. Photograph by Buehman & Hartwell of Tucson Arizona. Millie-Christine, African American Conjoined Twins Cabinet CardThe "Two-Headed Nightingale" Fine Cabinet Card by Ollivier, Brooklyn, NY of Millie-Christine. Millie and Christine McKoy (also spelled McCoy; July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African-American pygopagus conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The United African Twins,"  "The Carolina Twins," "The Two-Headed Nightingale," and "The Eighth Wonder of the World."   Large Cabinet Photograph of GAR (Grand Army of the Republic Members Posed on a Homer Illinois Street c1910 About thirty members are posed with hats, jackets and badges. They stand in front of the A Henderson store. Next door is The Kahn Store. Photograph by Rogers Studio of Homer Illinois. Native American Portrait Photo Ingleside Inn, Phoenix Arizona by Kirkpatrick c1920-30s An interesting 8" x 10" b/w photograph of an unidentified Native American posed in native garb. He is wearing a full feather headdress. The photograph is stamped copyright Ingleside Inn Phoenix Ariz. and photograph by Kirkpatrick. Louis Heller Lost River Murderers Published by Carleton Watkins The prisoners are shown seated, with the two at right with their feet in chains. The image was taken after the Modoc War in California.  Magician Neville Maskelyne and His Drawing Automaton "Zoe" London Stereoscopic Company A magician and inventor of the pay toilet along with other Victorian-era devices, J.N. Maskelyne and his famous automaton Zoe.   Fine Wedding Daguerreotype in Passe Partout Frame by Thiery The Lucky Man is Posed with His Wife and Mother-in-Law. French Half-Plate Daguerreotype by Thiery, Artiste Photographe, Paris. Collection of 11 Curious American Snapshots African-Americans, Oddball, Costume, Signs, Double Exposure. Sixth-Plate Daguerreotype of the Twitchell Estate, Framingham, Massachusetts Anonymous American Daguerreian Fine sixth-plate daguerreotype of the Twitchell Estate, Framingham, Mass. This building is still standing today. Image has been resealed and is housed in a full leather case. Occupational Daguerreotype of a Workman, Large Straw Hat, Whisk Brush, Hammer Occupational sixth-plate daguerreotype of a workman with large straw hat, a whisk brush in his hand, a hammer on the table by his side. Resealed, housed in a half leather case that has loose slats. CDV of Walt Whitman by M.B. Brady Carte-de-visite (CDV) by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY of Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass. On verso, written in pencil is "Walt Whitman, poet, was a hack driver in 1861 he drove Abe Lincoln to the Astor House in an open hack in 1861."  Italy Travel Album 75 Full Page Images of 19th Century Italy. Some of the images are by G. Sommer, Napoli.  Romance Collection, Daguerreotypes, Love Poems, Valentines, Letter & Journal Anson Fletcher Abbot & an Anonymous American Daguerreotypist A VICTORIAN CONNECTICUT ROMANCE. This is a unique collection of 2 quarter-plate daguerreotypes, love poems, Valentines, a letter and the journal of A.F. Abbot from Aug. 1, 1851 through Oct. 13, 1853, documenting the courtship and marriage of Anson Fletcher Abbot (1830-1907) and Nancy Merriman Abbott, of Watertown, Connecticut. 18 Ambrotypes and Tintypes of the Johnston Family Collection of 18 images from an English family. Sixteen are ambrotypes (5 sixth-plates; 11 ninth-plates) and two are tintypes (1 quarter plate; 1 ninth-plate). 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