Search Results: Photography from Walkabout Books

Portland, Oregon: Davidson Photo, 1883. Very good. 5.5" x 8" albumen photograph on a 9.25" x 12" mount. Titled "Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking down stream," with further caption for the series: "Scenery Along the Line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Clarke's Fork Division." Credited "Davidson, Photo. Portland, Oregon." Very good condition, with small chips at corners of mount, contrast a bit light. This series of views was apparently taken to celebrate and promote the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Construction had begun in Minnesota in 1870, and the final section was completed on September 8, 1883. An article published in the Helena [Montana] Semi-Weekly Herald on July 19, 1883, reports that "Mr. Ed Stone, General Agent of the Land Department of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is the possessor of a large album of views entitled "Oregon and the Pacific Northwest." Glimpses of pretty sports along the valley of the Columbia River from northern Montana to the Pacific… Read More

Softcover. Very good. Hand-made calendar composed of 12 sheets of 7" x 5.25" cardstock, two-hole punched at top for hanging. Small printed calendar page affixed to each sheet below an original cyanotype photograph measuring about 3.25" x 4.5" (sizes vary slightly). Most photos have a penciled caption written on the back of the card. Front page toned and has some rubbed spots, otherwise very good. Each page of this calendar shows a different view of the town of South Royalton, Massachusetts, with several labeled as "before fire" or "after fire." The fire, dubbed "The Great Fire of 1904" in local histories, occurred on October 25, 1904. It started in an outbuilding of the Whitney Woolen Mill Co. and ultimately destroyed a bridge, church, schoolhouse, grocery store, and several private homes. The calendar includes images of the Mill, "the new dam," village streets, "the old homestead" (presumably the home of the photographer), the railroad track and houses above it, and the bridge, church, and… Read More

Softcover. Very good. 7" x 11" strong-tied photograph album containing 35 snapshots (3.5" x 5") corner-mounted one per page, rectos only. A small album without captions, but with good documentary content. The first two images are a nice Juneau street scene and a shot of the Alaska Air Transport Terminal in the Juneau harbor. These are followed by some rural scenes showing country roads and houses that we suspect are outside Juneau, and several shots of a terminal where cargo is being either loaded from rail car to ship, or vice versa. From there, three shots show a ship's passage, presumably across the Gulf of Alaska from Juneau to Kodiak, as the remainder of the images (20+) seem to be from Kodiak. There are several nice images of the Kodiak dock and harbor, several of a rural road and house, a view looking down at the town from a hillside, and many shots of the beautiful Russian Orthodox church.

Post-bound album containing 27 linen-backed silver prints showing (with one exception) residential and institutional construction projects completed using granite supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company of Mt. Airy. NC. The exception is a photo of a stack of flagstones at the quarry. Each photo is 7.5 x 9.5 inches, and nearly all have identifying information on the front. Label at the back of the album identifies it as "Book Number Twenty Two" and lists the photo numbers it contains. Labels at both front and back identify the album as on loan to Dearborn, MIchigan, sales agent Charles H. Gall. Includes images of the St. Charles Seminary (Overbrook, PA); Roman Catholic Church Rectory (Philadelphia); Zion Reformed Church (Baltimore); First Presbyterian Church (Mt. Airy, NC); First Evangelical Church (Williamsport, PA); Harlem Methodist Episcopal Church (Baltimore); Bethesda Methodist Episcopal Church (Salisbury, MD); Moravian Church (Mount Airy, NC); Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore);… Read More

Chicago: Mrs. T.M. Starr, 1896. Softcover. Very good. Fourth edition. 48 pp. 6.5 x 5 inches, in original stapled wrappers. A very good copy, with some chipping to the spine, ownership signature on front cover. Title continues: Including Concise Instructions for Coloring with Transparent Oil Colors and for Enameling Over Colors, Mounting on Glass, Coloring Lantern Slides, Fabric Painting, etc., etc. Mrs. Starr, the publisher, was manager of the Acme Water Color Co. As promised, the book offers tips on how to select and apply color to diffrerent parts of an image (e.g., hair, flesh, backgrounds) and to photographs of different types. Just one copy (of any edition) located in OCLC.

Album containing eleven 7"x 9" professional linen-backed photographs showing the process and results of installing new street lights along a main commercial thoroughfare in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is the county seat of Butler County, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. In the early twentieth century, "the town was a heavy manufacturing center for vaults and safes, machine tools, cans for vegetables, paper, paper making machinery, locomotives, frogs and switches for railroads, steam engines, diesel engines, foundry products, printing presses, and automobile parts" (wiki). The photos show wide streets lined with businesses which, with the advent of increased automobile traffic, were undoubtedly eager for the most modern and effective methods of illumination. A wonderful set of facing night views shows how much brighter the new lights are. An additional 16 snapshots photos are laid into the album, most showing people posing with what appear to be temporary streetlights. Five were taken in front of the… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12.5" x 9.5", in original cloth boards with title in gilt, later contrasting cloth spine and corners. Some abrasion to edges of boards, foxing to title page and a few tissue guards; binding tight, plates clean. Includes very brief introductory text ("These views of Algiers and the neighbourhood, printed in Photogravure by Mr. Courtulement, of Algiers, are from negatives taken by myself and a friend during our residence there in 1887-88. This book brings to mind many happy hours spent there together and is now published by request") followed by 100 photogravure plates, each with a printed tissue guard identifying the scene. A handsome production. Due to size, shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders.

New York: AMPHOTO/American Photographic Book Publishing, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 128 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, index. Slight wear to edges, else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and has a few small chips. According to the jacket, Rothstein's photographs "have been praised as 'demonstrations of photojournalism at its best - the the wide variety of subjects, in the brilliance of interpretation, and in the consistent technical quality...' For the first time, Rothstein presents his previously unpublished photos taken in China during and after World War II.

San Francisco, CA: Camera Craft Publishing, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 160 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, with advertisements. Inscribed "To a Young Amateur, Harry Champlin" on title page. Silght wear to edges, name on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, a few large chips including about 2/3 of spine missing. A guide to the "minicam," including information on lighting, filters, lenses, developing, speed, films, projection printing, and other topics.

Los Angeles: SWC Editions, 2001. Softcover. Fine. 53 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs. Clean and sound, with minimal wear. Comprised of an essay titled "Significant Others" by Peter Frank, two beautiful photo essays from Turkey and Cuba by Schoenfeld, and additional information. "Why Turkey and Cuba, thousands of miles apart, different people, different histories? Both Southeastern Anatolia, in Turkey, and the island of Cuba share the inevitability of significant political and economic change" (afterword).

Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of Frances Coryell (raised in an orphanage, nursed by a goat, now learning to sing hymns) is told on the back of the card by Clementina Butler, a missionary to India and zealous supporter of the Society. By 1870, a woman in Ithaca, NY, had taken up Frances's cause and was paying for her education. Although you could purchase one for 25 cents in 1869, we have only seen one other example of this card. That one was credited on the verso to H.P. Chapman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

New York: Scovill & Adams Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 426 pp + ads, in original cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Rubbng to extremities, front free endpaper loosening; all else very good. Volume 41 in the Scovill Photographic Series. Includes both theoretical and practical information. Described in "The Photo-Miniature" (Vol. 4, Issue 2) as "the most comprehensive and satisfactory work on the subject.

Four-page circular, 5.75" x 9", urging the reader to "send us your photograph...and we will produce a highly-finished permanent enlargement equaling a rich steel plate engraving." Inside are numerous testimonials to quality of the product, and on the back is a promise of free gift with your first purchase -- a "charming miniature on porcelain, handsomely framed with metal back." Fine condition.

Twenty-seven (27) 8" x 10" photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent with a driver. Vehicles include many touring cars and cabriolets made by Renault, Packard, and Daimler; a Sunbeam roadster, town cars, taxis, a limousine, army trucks, a French truck mounted with an anti-aircraft gun, and several remarkable "camera cars" made with front or rear-mounted platforms to hold movie cameras and their operators. Rental prices ranged from $35/day for a camera car to $75/day for the Sunbeam Roadster or a 1926 Renault cabriolet. Many of the cars are "posed" in front of beautiful homes on tree-lined Pasadena streets. These photographs would originally have been in a sales catalogue or album, and there are remnants of the original pages on which they were mounted on the back… Read More

Spring Grove, MN. Very good. 7.75" x 9.5" gelatin silver photograph on a 9.75" x 11.75" mount with the stamp of Spring Grove, Minnesota photographer Frank E. Joerg (1869-1932). Some edgewear to mount, image very good. Verso blank. This wonderfully detailed image shows a man seated holding a shotgun, with a dog asleep on a rug at his feet. Displayed all around him are collections. Photographs, seashells, taxidermy, and figurines are most prominent, but also visible are a stack of books, a painting, an International Tailoring Company advertisement, and other knickknacks and decorative items. Posters of Theodore Roosevelt and his Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks suggest a date of 1905-1908.

Unmounted albumen photograph, 20.5 x 26 cm (about 8" x 10"), ca. 1890. Very good condition, with one shallow crease at the lower edge. Captioned and signed in the negative; verso blank. A wonderful image showing Beyazit Square in Constantinople bustling with activity. The arched gate and is 85-meter fire-watch tower (Seraskier of Beyazit Tower) were once part of the Ministry of War and now mark the entrance to Istanbul University. The Sébah & Joaillier studio was named after the renowned Ottoman photographer Pascal Sébah (1823-1886) died and his son Joannes (Jean) Sébah and brother Cosmi Sébah formed a partnership with Istanbul-based photographer Polycarpe Joaillier.

Istanbul: Cumhuriyet Matbaasi, 1939. Softcover. very good. 11.25' x 7.5", unpaginated, but ca. 200 pp, consisting entirely of reproduced photographs, each with a caption (in Turkish). A good copy with creasing and chipping to wrappers, one crack in binding. An interesting and uncommon assemblage of images documenting the public appearances of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, the first President of the Republic of Turkey.  The photographs were taken by  photographers from several Turkish newspapers:  Cemal Göral of Son Posta, Faik Senol of Aksam, Hilmi Sahenk  of Tan, and Salahaddin Giz and Namik Görgüç of Cumhuriyet. Most date from the period between the establishment of the Republic in 1923 and Atatürk's death in 1938, but there are some earlier images included. Born in 1881 in Salonika in what was then the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was sent to military school and the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905. "In 1911, he served against the Italians in Libya and then in the… Read More

Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album has handwritten captions, the others do not, but do have some group photographs with captions in the negative. Two identity documents are tipped in to one album that, we are told, are for people with the family names Yokoo and Hayashi. During the interwar years, Japanese culture was pervaded by the conviction that a strong military was the solution to most problems, foreign and domestic. The Army enjoyed considerable independence from the civilian government, and various factions within the military played a major role in directing the country's foreign policy. As described by historian David Hunter-Chester in The Culture of Military Organizations, (Cambridge, 2019) the Imperial Japanese Army's… Read More

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1869. Hardcover. Good. Author's edition, "with all his introductions, various readings, and the editor's notes." 375 pp + extensive publisher's catalogue illustrated with many engravings from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gildert, as well as 11 original albumen photographs. A good copy bound in original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, with all edges gilt. Mild spine slant, corners rubbed, scuff mark on rear board. Paper split over hinges; hinges sound but appear to have been re-glued. Early owner's name and date on verso of front free endpaper.

11" x 14" photograph showing members of the American Samoan Delegation--headed by famed Machu PIcchu explorer Hiram Bingham--being received by local chiefs, as a Samoan man films the proceedings. A slightly different version of this image (with the Samoan photographer removed) was published in a 1931 U.S. Government report with the caption "County Chiefs Leiato of Fagaitua and Faumunia of Aunuu Entertain Commission at Fagaitua." The Delegation, which also included Rep. Guinn Williams, Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, and Rep. Carroll L. Beedy, was there to hear the grievances of Samoans living under U.S. Naval Administration governance and to determine whether to make changes to American policy and procedures. Photographer Merl LaVoy (1886-1953) was present as a cameraman for British newsreel producer Pathé News. LaVoy is well known for his photographs of indigenous life in the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, China, and Alaska, as well as for films he made for the American Red Cross following World War I.… Read More