Search Results: Photographs, Photo Albums from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: James J. Kriegsmann (photographer), no date (circa 1940's). Original glossy photograph on single weight paper measuring 10 inches by 8 inches (including borders). Signed in the negative by Kriegsmann, verso blank.
Trace edge wear, verso slightly toned & soiled, otherwise very good or better.
A stunning image of sexy Lulu, almost certainly a Burlesque/ striptease performer for whom we could no further information. Photographer Kriegsmann, who was considered one of the best photographers in the United States, was the official in-house photographer for Harlem's Cotton Club.

Chicago: Bloom (photographer or studio). Original satin finish silver gelatin photograph on double weight fiber paper measuring 10 inches by 8 inches (including borders) depicting magician"Carlyle" fanning a deck of cards. Signed, Inscribed, & dated by Carlyle in 1940. Rubber-stamped on the verso, "Loaned by Carlyle Magician, Original."
Slightly wavy, unobtrusive scratch, inscription a bit light, brief edge wear, light soiling mostly evident at the border & verso, otherwise Very Good.
"To Harold & Gloria Sterling, With best wishes for your continued success in a most progressive magic store. Magically, "Carlyle," 1940."
The image depicts Lyle 'Carlyle' Laughlin (1906-1996), who was the inventor of the Three-To-One Ropes trick and a simplified version of the 20th Century Silks trick. The photo is inscribed to the Harold & Gloria Sterling who performed on the Chautauqua circuit & opened a magic store in 1939.

Aldershot, [England]: printed by Gale & Polden, Wellington Works, 1918. Two leaves (7.75" by 10") folded once vertically forming 8 pages (2 blank), printed on card stock, with original mounted photograph depicting Welbeck Abbey on the front cover and, internally, a baseball scorecard and diagram for the match between Mansfield & Worksop from the Canadian Forestry Camps.
Folded once vertically as issued & twice horizontally (spurious), soiled, edge wear, brief pencil annotation on rear cover, once cord-bound, cording now failed, otherwise Good or so.

Cincinnati: Rombach & Groene, 1884. Original albumen photograph measuring 6 inches by 9.5 inches mounted to gilt-edged board measuring 6.75 inches by 10 inches. Titled & credited in print in the margin below the image. Moderately soiled/ foxed, image a bit light, otherwise very good. The 1884 riot followed outrage at the conviction of William Berner for manslaughter rather than murder. As a contemporary headline screamed, "At Last the People are Aroused and Take the Law into Their Own Hands, Enraged Community Rises in Its Might." (~Cincinnati Enquirer, March 29, 1884). Louis Rombach and Theodore Groene, both previously employed by noted Cincinnati photographer Charles Waldack, established their own studio specializing in mercantile and landscape photography in 1883. By 1895 the business was advertised as "The Largest Establishment of its Kind in the United States."

New York: published by the photographer, no date, ca. 1885. The images measure 7.75 inches by 9.5 inches (or the reverse) & are mounted to thick card stock (14" x 17") Most of the photos are numbered in the negative & the mounts each bear the imprint of the photographer, with his Bond Street, New York address. The images are a bit light The mounts are wavy, soiled, foxed, & one has the lower corner chipped away, otherwise Good or better. A pioneer of architectural photography, Albert Levy (1844–1847 - 1907) was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States He produced thousands of images documenting the history of civil, domestic, and church architecture in France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States. Significant collections of his work can be found at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Additionally, Levy began the… Read More

Miami: Verne O. Williams, Commercial Photographer, 1926. The photos are printed on double weight paper & vary in size from 7" x 11" to 8" x 5". Each is credited in the negative, four have the photographer's rubber stamp on the verso, each is annotated in ink on the verso in an unknown hand, at times acerbically.
Moderately soiled & foxed (mostly on the versos), couple of scuffs, one image with upper right corner creased & upper left corner with one inch with tear mostly in the margin but briefly affecting image, otherwise good or better.
"It is the Meyer-Kaiser building, the two Jews who own it claimed that they could build just as good a building with common labor …"

Japan: Unpublished, 1909 - 1954. Approximately 430 presumably amateur silver gelatin photographs, 6.5" x 5" and smaller, and a couple of real photo postcards housed in three commercial albums, oblong or vertical quartos measuring about 11 inches by 8 inches. The compiler is unknown but quite possibly "Takamasa" (first name) or his descendants. His photograph is the first image in the album we have identified as album A. The photos are dated as early as 1909 and as late as 1954 with most from the mid twenties to late thirties. Many of the images include manuscript and occasionally rubber-stamped or printed annotations in Japanese on the versos An eight page English translation accompanies the archive. Albums rubbed (one flaking with joints beginning to split), certainly Good or better. The images show occasional creasing, silver mirroring, & fading but are generally Very Good. An impressive archive documenting life in Japan between the wars. Particularly interesting are several images depicting a… Read More

[Marathon County, Wisconsin ?]: unpublished, various photographers, compiler unknown, 1882 - 1929 Approximately 279 mostly silver gelatin photographs (some albumen & other types) housed in 3 folio "scrapbook" albums, heavily annotated in manuscript & occasionally typed throughout. No doubt compiled later, the photos vary in size from approximately 1.25 inches by 1.25 inches to 10 inches by 13 inches & are a mix of amateur & professional images. Included in the group are snapshots, cdv's, cabinet cards, at least one tintype & one cyanotypeThe images, which are secured in the albums by old black photo corners, vary in condition but are generally Very Good Several show edge wear (including small losses), fading, moderate soiling, & silver mirroring Several are detached or partially detached from the cornersThe annotations, apparently added later (1940's?) provide names, dates, places, etc. Beginning with Frank Carl Krahn, who was a locomotive engineer from Manitowoc &, later, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, the… Read More

No place [Yokohama?], no publisher, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn: spine perished, boards and ffeps detached (boards remarkably well preserved although lacking two small inlaid pieces), most tissue guards creased and torn, mounts with slight wave and sporadic foxing/ soiling, 3 photos with minute losses at the edges, a few slightly faded or under exposed, most fresh and rich in tonal quality.Although quite probably a composite album representing photos from different studios, certainly many of the images are from the Yokohama studio of T. Enami. Presents views in Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and elsewhere featuring architecture, temples, street scenes, ceremonies, occupations,… Read More

No place [Yokohama?], T. Enami & others, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative.
Binding worn: spine perished, boards and front free endpapers detached (boards remarkably well preserved although lacking one small inlaid piece), most tissue guards creased and torn, mounts with slight wave and sporadic foxing/ soiling, 3 photos with minute losses at the edges, a few slightly faded or under exposed, most fresh and rich in tonal quality.
Although quite probably a composite album representing photos from different studios, certainly many of the images are from the Yokohama studio of T. Enami. Presents views in Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and elsewhere featuring architecture, temples, street scenes,… Read More

Knoxville, Tennessee, 1924 - 1925 & later. Scrapbook/ photo album compiled by Christine Wilson, a High School student. Cord-bound album, oblong quarto bound in limp patterned suede {?} lettered in gilt on the upper cover. The album contains 10 partially printed pages completed in manuscript providing a title page followed by "Friends O' Mine" in which 47 friends record names, addresses & sentiments. Thereafter 17 light card leaves contain amateur snapshots in various sizes, calling cards, calligraphy, mementos, chocolate labels, a rather bizarre piece of original art depicting a gravestone, & a couple of letters, approximately 136 items in total, mounted or laid-in recto & verso. Numerous unused leaves follow.
Binding rubbed, contents with occasional modest wear but generally very good.
Ms. Wilson attended Knoxville High School and graduated in 1925. A religious young woman, one of the letters invites Christine to attend a "circle meeting" in which she should "bring [her] special offering for foreign… Read More

No place [Geneva, New York ?], 1899 - 1909. Original photo album, black card stock with embossed "Photographs" on the upper cover, oblong small quarto (7" x 10.25"), containing 37 silver gelatin photographs mounted to 30 pages of thick black paper, many with manuscript annotations. The photos generally measure 3.25 inches by 5.5 inches & are usually mounted one to a page recto & verso.
Covers partially split at the spine (now repaired on the verso with archival tissue), modest edge wear, some photos a bit light, one photo with small loss at the lower left corner, three photos removed (by others), otherwise Very Good.
One photo depicts "Waldo Hutchins House." Research indicates Mr. Hutchins lived in Geneva, New York.

New York: Carleton, Publisher; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXIX (1869). First edition, this copy with presentation in ink by the author at the ffep: "A M[onsieur] Chabot/ avec les compliments/ de M'elle Kraft."
12mo, viii, [9] - 316 & 8 (ie 6) pages of publisher's ads plus 5 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's rust/ brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Not found in The Truthful Lens.
Recently rebacked preserving original spine, long tear at the ffep now repaired on the verso (presentation not affected), binding moderately rubbed & soiled, scattered foxing, a very good copy.
Ms. Kraft departed Paris on December 1, 1868 in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ferris (her sister and brother in law) and traveling companion J.S. Rogers. The group arriived in Egypt on December 11. As she notes in her prologue,"In presenting this little work for the perusal of my friends, I beg to remind them that I have, as nearly as was consistent, adhered to the original design of giving a "diary"… Read More

Elizabeth, New Jersey: Alfred S. Campbell Art Company (credited in the negative), 1899. The image measures 3.5 inches by 9 inches, framed to 14.75 inches by 9.25 inches. Please note, we have not examined this out of the frame but it appears to be a hand-colored platinum print mounted directly behind an identically sized piece of glass.
Photo with browning along the edges, frame soiled, with shallow edge chipping, still quite lovely.
Alfred S. Campbell (1840 - 1912) emigrated from England to the United States in 1866, a photographer and entrepreneur, he managed the photography studio of Napoleon Sarony. In about 1871 he founded the Alfred S. Campbell Art Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey, additionally known as AS Campbell Art Company. Thereafter, with Rudolf Eickemeyer, he opened Campbell Studios in New York City. His fine art photographs can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Getty Museum.

Lot of two original untitled hand-colored photos on double weight paper depicting interior views furnished in colonial style. No place [Framingham, Massachusetts], no date [circa 1915]. One measuring 3.75 inches by 5.75 inches tipped at the top to card stock measuring 7.75 inches by 9.75 inches, the other measuring 2.5 inches by 4.75 inches tipped to card stock measuring 6.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Both are signed in ink by Nutting in the mount just below the image.
Photographs slightly faded, mounts browned & soiled mostly on the verso, easily Very Good or better.
A lovely pair of Wallace Nutting's "Colonials," one depicting a seated woman amidst colonial furnishings in front of a roaring fire, the other showing three women at tea.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: United Press International, 3/31/1966. Original glossy photograph on single weight paper measuring 8 inches by 10 inches, with press release tipped to the verso & rubber-stamped UPI notice.
Slightly curled, otherwise Near Fine.
"Pittsburgh: Lone picket Amiel Mincer, of Gibsonia, PA. stands outside the Pennsylvania Railroad Station here March 31st at start of railroad strike against eight major trunk lines. The strike was called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman and Engineman in a new eruption of the dispute over the elimination of firemen from locomotive crews."

Philadelphia: United Press International, 4/5/1966. Original glossy photograph on single weight paper measuring 9 inches by 7 inches, with rubber-stamped UPI notice on the verso.
Slightly curled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
"Haverford College professor Wm. Davidson (sic), holds his two-year old daughter, Ruth, outside Independence Hall early 4/5, when he and his daughter joined 30 pacifists on a 90 mile march to New York's United Nations Plaza. The pacifists will begin a peace pilgrimage in what the call the "Swords into Plowshares" movement."

San Francisco, California: United Press International, 4/13/1966. Original glossy photograph on single weight paper measuring 7 inches by 9 inches, with rubber-stamped UPI notice on the verso.
Brief edge wear, slightly crazed, otherwise Very Good.
"Thomas A. Rotell (R-C) addresses some 300 off-duty shipyard workers picketing the Marine Administration Office in the Federal Building. The demonstration was in protest of an alleged statement made last week by Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson in Tokyo, at which the Administrator was alleged to have said that ships of the American Merchant Marine would be built in Japan."

New York: Pach Bros, No date [1899] First edition Commercially published photo album, oblong folio (10.5" x 14") containing 19 thick card leaves (38 pp), with photos (7.75" x 10.5" & smaller) mounted recto & verso. Original half pigskin & cloth. Presents small oval portraits (14 to a page) of 42 administrators & faculty on 3 pages, 224 students in the same format on 16 pages, 14 images (2 to a page) depicting clubs & sports teams on 7 pages, 2 panoramic views of football competition with Yale on 1 page, & 14 images showing campus architecture (1, 2, & 4 to a page) on the final 11 pages.
Binding worn: lacking backstrip, rubbed & scuffed Internally attractive excepting modest foxing & handling smudges mostly in the margins. Pach Brothers, Photographers was founded in the mid-1860s in New York City by German-born brothers Gustavus, Gotthelf, & Morris Pach, the firm was in business until 1967. Beginning in the 1870s, in addition to their core business photographing famous and ordinary Americans, the Pach… Read More

[Bluffton, South Carolina: Sam Burnett, no date, ca. 1995]. Original photo shot with infrared film & developed in house using selenium toner, one of twenty-five examples signed & numbered in pencil by the photographer. The image measures 12.25 inches by 8 inches & is matted & backed to 20.5 inches by 16 inches. The label of Hilton Head Island's Pink House Gallery is applied to the back.
The mat is mounted to the backer, otherwise fine.
A beautiful image depicting a fully nude young woman sitting in tall grass at night on the beach at Pine Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina.