A compelling standing portrait of a woman, probably dressed for some kind theatrical, allegorical performance. She stands in a dark dress with scissors affixed to her blouse, what appear to be bone stays around her waist, and a small gun in her right hand. A sixth-plate tintype, measuring 2-1/2 by 4.....

A carte de visite image of a man and a woman, possibly Egyptian, possibly a pregnant woman and her husband. The woman wears a long white veil that extends almost to the ground. Her hands are crossed over her stomach. The man, wearing a fez, stands next to her, holding.....

A cabinet card photograph of the US-government-run Native American boarding school in Forest Grove, Oregon, some 25 miles east of Portland. The image shows the two main buildings with the students gathered in the grassy square between. The boys, on the left, are all wearing military-style uniforms. The girls, much.....

A nice image of a sod house on the Dakota prairie with its likely inhabitants, a white woman standing at the door, with a white man sitting on a barrel against the house holding two young children. This is a good illustration of pioneer family life and the exceptional hardships.....

A compelling but unidentified vintage cabinet card of two women wearing elaborate striped dresses, fringed hats and cross necklaces while holding playing cards. Just visible at their feet are the bases of stands used by the photographer to hold them in place during the long exposure needed for the photograph.....

A stereoview of the Everett Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. This is no. 1336 in the "B" Series, a vast collection of pirated views issued by an East Coast firm with many locations. This view is a single photograph, almost certainly a copy print of another photographer's work. Near fine. Medium.....

Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British.....

First Edition. Introduction by Weston Naef. Black-and-white photos of the female nude form, with a few images that are not of white models (for once). This is one of 300 copies of the "gallery edition", each of which was signed and numbered by the photographer, with an original 8-by-10-inch signed print.....

First Edition. 79 pages. Introduction by Marcia Tucker; essay by David Mellor. An exhibition monograph of Ross's color photographs taken in museums, often behind the scenes. Many of the photographs document taxidermied animals in storage. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. From the Harvard office.....

8-by-10-inch black-and-white photograph (image 6 by 8 inches). Olsen is best known for her book, Tell Me a Riddle. In recent years, she has become a symbol of the hardships many women writers face when trying to juggle family and money and time to write. A fine photograph, inscribed twice.....

An 18-by-12-inch image (on 20 by 16 paper) of the artist R. B. Kitaj, probably taken in 1990 (based on another photograph Felver took of Kitaj at that time). Felver is best-known for his portraits of writers. A fine example. This is copy 3 of an edition of 5, signed.....

Black-and-white photograph. Image 14 by 18 inches on 20-by-16-inch paper. This photograph was most likely taken in 1951, during Mantle's rookie year, when the photographer, Osvaldo Salas, was active taking pictures of the New York Yankees. Salas was a Cuban exilie photographer who was active in New York during the.....

Roughly 9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. Image of a long sluice powering a half-built mill in a Douglas fir forest, probably near Puget Sound, Washington. Identified on verso (back) as "Negative No. 405. A. H. Waite, Tacoma, Wash." The image is also stamped "Printed by A. C. Carpenter, Photographer, 917 C......