A horizontal cabinet card image of men loading an ox-drawn wagon with rocks. The large rocks are on Muscogee Lumber / Pensacola & Muscogee Railroad flat cars sitting on raised tracks. Two boards are placed to slide the rocks down into the wagon. Most of the workers pictured are African.....

An image of two tepees in a forested setting, presumably outside of Spokane, Washington. The tepees are assembled from wooden poles wrapped with a variety of blankets and other large pieces of cloth. This image probably depicts a camp of members of the Spokane tribe. Charles Libby opened a photography.....

A pair of photographs of wooden-hulled ships, probably barkentines, under construction at Rolph's Shipyard in Fairhaven, on the Samoa penninsula across Humboldt Bay from Eureka, California. The shipyard at Fairhaven was founded by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish shipbuilder, in 1869. He built about a hundred large vessels there until 1910.....

A cabinet card photograph of two young African American women wearing similar solid-color dresses with elaborate headpieces. One woman stands with her arm on a pedestal, the other is seated to her right. The photograph is captioned in a later hand, "Grandmother and Aunt Maggie 1888." The date seems correct.....

Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short.....

A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows.....

A portrait of two unidentified women holding strands of yarn. They are wearing distinctive uniforms of thick gathered skirt over a second, stiff, horizontally pleated skirt; a tunic over a blouse, and a flat cloth head covering that seems to tie in a large bow around their necks. On the.....

A portrait of an unidentified migrant farm worker on the edge of the California desert, just north of the Mexican border. He sits on a dirt berm, in a row of other men, suggested only by their elbows, which are visible at the edges of the image. Lange took this.....

Portrait of an Inuit woman, Kow-ear-nuk, standing at a slight angle to the camera, with a rack of split, drying salmon behind her. A similar image, captioned "Kow-ear-nuk and his (sic) drying salmon", appeared in many editions of Ella Higginson's Alaska: The Great Country, first published in 1908, and has.....

Portrait of Wy-ung-ena, an Inuit (possibly Alutiiq) woman, smoking a pipe and surrounded by metal pots, probably taken in Port Douglas, Alaska. Wy-ung-ena was a frequent subject for Nowell. One of his most widely reproduced images is a picture of Wy-ung-ena and her husband A-pa-look, and their child (neg. 4089).....

A carefully posed full-length albumen silver print portrait of two women, possibly Bengali, working as dirt haulers. They pose behind a small pile of soil, a shovel, and a basket partially filled with dirt. One woman balances a basket on her head. In style, this is a very typical occupational.....

A gelatin silver print of an elderly man in profile, holding a mirror in one hand and trimming his beard with scissors held in the other hand. The subject's clothes, a thick cloth jacket and canvas jeans, are worn and full of holes. The image is captioned in pencil on.....

A striking gelatin silver print of an Alaskan Inuit woman looking directly into the camera and wearing a hooded fur parka. Two elements make this an unusual Nowell portrait. First, it is a studio image and the vast majority of his pictures of Inuits are taken on location. Second, this image.....