San Francisco: Taber, Photo, (n. d.). Ca late 1880s. Taber imprint in Mission photograph bottom band; verso with Adobe image [uncaptioned], and top of a cropped second photograph [tops of palm trees showing]. Mission Photograph: 5" x 8". Mount: 5-11/16" x 8-1/4". Mount now housed in an archival mylar sleeve..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1875. Image: 5-1/2" x 3-15/16". On a pink mount, with gold trim [6-9/16" x 4-1/4"]". No imprint, verso blank [also pink]. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Oakland, California: William B. Ingersoll, (n. d.). Ca 1874. Stereo image mounted to deep yellow stiff-stock paper. Lettering in brown ink. Verso blank. Landscape format: 3-3/8" x 6-15/16". Rounded corners. Image size: 3-1/16" x 2-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The 200-room Tubbs Hotel opened in 1871 just..... More
Tacoma: Robt. W. Hulbert, Souvenir Booklet Service, 1918. 1st Printing. Photographer's imprint & pencil note to photograph verso. Oblong panoramic format: 7-1/4" x 18-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Early image of the 38th Field Artillery Battery, which was formed just 3 months early (August 17, 1918) at..... More
Brooklyn, N. Y. C. H. Jordan, 485 Fulton Street, (n. d.). Ca late 1890s. Image portrays the nurse standing next to a small table, on which is found a jar of tonic, and a glass with pipette. Photograph: 5-7/16" x 4-1/8". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16". Albumen photograph mounted on dark..... More
[Watsonville, CA ?]: (n. d.). Ca early 1900s? Divers sizes. 4 mounted. All now housed in archival mylar sleeves. Here offered a group of 6 early b/w photographs of the Watsonville Sanatorium, also known as the Watsonville Sanitarium. None are dated or credited but all provide exterior views of this..... More
1069 Broadway, cor. 12th Street, Oakland: Wm. B. Ingersoll, (n. d.). Ca early-to-mid 1870s. Stereo image mounted to deep yellow stiff-stock paper. Lettering in brown ink. Verso blank. Landscape format card: 3-7/16" x 6-15/16". Rounded corners. Image size: 3-1/16" square. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The 200-room Tubbs..... More
(n. p.): Newark Photo Co., [1918]. Oblong photo: 7-5/8" x 43-1/8" Photograph housed in an early varnished brown wood frame. Rear exterior paper backing absent. Camp Hancock, active 1917 - 1919, was a U.S. Army World War I National Guard Mobilization and Training Camp established near Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia..... More
San Francisco: Taber, Photo, (n. d.). Ca late 1880s. Taber imprint in photograph bottom band; verso with large Taber imprint, including woodcut of his building, 8 Montgomery Street. Photograph: 4-7/8" x 8". Card: 5-5/16" x 8-3/8". Card mount with slightly rounded corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. This..... More
![Item #46318 MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL. 23rd St. Q & R Sacramento 1895 [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/46318.jpg?v=1543516279)
[Sacramento]: 1898. Frame: 10-1/4" x 12-5/8". Photograph: 6-1/8" x 8-1/4". Housed in an old, faded black wood frame. "The Sisters of Mercy broke ground on Sacramento's first private hospital, Mater Misericordiae (Latin for "Mother of Mercy") in the mid-1890s. The hospital was one of the most modern and best equipped..... More
New York. Aperture, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition thus. (Also published as Aperture 13.1 in 1967.). [1-6], 7-73, [74-77], [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Paul Caponigro (1932 -). 9-3/4" x 8-6/8". Original paper covers. All works by Paul Caponigro. More
New York. Published intermittently in Rochester, New York. Printed by Davis, Delaney, Inc., New York City. 1967. 1st Printing. [1 (blank)], 57, [58-62] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Paul Caponigro (1932 -). 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers. All works by Paul Caponigro. More
New York. Published quarterly in Rochester, New York. Printed by Smith-Hart in Rochester, N. Y.. 1961. 1st Printing. [1-19], 20-41, [42-44] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph by Jack Franks. 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers, stapled. Photographs and writings by Jack Franks, Robert Frank, Jonathan Williams, Edna Bennett and..... More
San Francisco / New York. Published quarterly in Rochester, New York. Printed by Smith-Hart in Rochester, N. Y.. 1960. 1st Printing. [1-3], 4-66, [67-68] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cover photograph of Alfred Stieglitz by Dorothy Norman (1905 - 1997). 9-1/4" x 8". Original paper covers, stapled. Photographs by Dorothy Norman..... More
[Surrey, England]: (n. d.). Ca mid-1880s. Single albumen photograph. Oblong orientation: 5-1/4" x 7-11/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve, with archival whiteboard backing. The heritage of the hotel dates back to the 16th C and Henry the VIII. The present building built in 1794, with subsequent modifications, as..... More
San Francisco: 1912. 2nd generation photograph (?). Photograph: 6-5/8" x 8-5/8". Mount: 9" x 10-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A rare item of San Francisco local history, this photograph documents a short-lived restaurant operated by Joseph S. Lincecum, located at 694 McAllister Street. Mount verso with prior..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1860s. Square photographs, mounted on a flat yellow card, square corners. No photographer imprint. Oblong format: 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A prior owner has noted in pencil on the verso: "Gadshill / Chas. Dickens", however, it is our professional..... More
London / Edinburgh: Reeves & Turner / William Patterson, 1871. Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 2 volumes: vi, [2], 243, [1]; vii, [1 (blank)], 319, [1 (blank)] pp. Published without the numerous plates found in the first edition of 1866. 8-3/4" x 7". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt..... More
Littleton, N. H. Published by B. W. Kilburn, (1899). Peach colored mount, rounded corners, with imprint to right [copyright notice] & left ["James M. Davis"] of image, caption underneath. Verso with Kilburn imprint. Image shows a slough & waterwheel, as well as other mining paraphernalia. Two separate images, square cut..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Photograph: 4-1/2" x 6-3/4". Mount: 6-3/8" x 8-3/8" 19th C. albumen photograph of the Walter Baker Pierce Mill, in Dorchester Massachusetts. "Built in 1872 after the designs of Nathanial J. Bradlee and Walter T. Winslow, the Pierce Mill at 1220 Adams Street is a...... More
Vallejo, Cal. Chas. McMillan, (n. d.). Ca 1890s. Image shows a mustashioed, albeit otherwise unidentified, man, in his sailor garb, hands at hips, standing on what appears to be a battleship deck [but is actually a staged background]. Photograph: 5-1/2" x 3-7/8". Mount: 7-7/16" x 5-1/4", with photographer imprint at..... More
