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An original 9" x 7 1/4" vintage portrait of opera singer Lotte Lehmann with George Platt Lynes' Vogue Magazine credit wet stamped on verso. Likely taken in Los Angeles, California. Printed on double weight matte paper. Ex-collection Paul Cadmus. Printed on double weight matte paper. Slight wear to edges and some silvering along edges visible under specular light as seen in images.

Gelatin silver print on 'AZO' postcard stock of local characters, Chinese interracial couple Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens at their Curio and Tea Shop in Chinatown, San Francisco, c. 1910. Measures 5 1/4" x 3 1/4". Handwritten inscription in ink on recto: 'Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens, Mrs. Howard Gould's sister'; 'AZO' wet stamp logo verso. Very good condition, crease in top right corner, wearing along edges as seen in image.
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Wong and Clemens met in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequently married. They opened a curio and tea shop in Chinatown and published a series of postcards of themselves to promote the store. (via The University of British Columbia: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungphotos/items/1.0220028)
Note: Clemens had moved to San Francisco from Illinois, establishing herself as a missionary in Chinatown. After the 1906 earthquake she relocated with the rest of the community and met Wong while living in temporary… Read More

76 gem tintypes of young ladies, likely from an unidentified northeastern girls' school. Images in fine condition. Album has some wear on edges, missing clasp. Covers gilt embossed, most artfully posed individual portraits, a few have 2-3 sitters.