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![Changing New York. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. [Preface by Audrey McMahon]. Berenice Abbott](/pictures/thumb/320302.jpg?v=1607710031)
Changing New York. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. [Preface by Audrey McMahon].
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First Edition. Abbott's intention with this work, funded by the WPA, was "to do in Manhattan what Atget did in Paris." "Abbot photographed warehouses, skyscrapers, bridges, tenements, newsstands, department stores, and hotels with a straightforward style that nodded toward nineteenth-century classicism while signaling..... Read More about Changing New York. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. [Preface by Audrey McMahon
Price: $3,750
Photographic portrait of Abbott, seated at his desk.
New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. [1920?]. Signed by the famous Congregationalist minister who took over Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation: “Yours sincerely / Lyman Abbott.” Provenance: C.N. Thomas of Underwood and Underwood. Read More about Photographic portrait of Abbott, seated at his desk
Price: $150
Signed, with an Original Print
Images.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Adams, Ansel. Deluxe issue, no. 366 of 500 (of 1000 total) copies signed by Ansel Adams and with additional silver print signed by Adams on the mount. Signed, with an Original Print. The deluxe issue of this elegantly produced volume presenting some of the..... Read More about Images
Price: $5,000
The Pageant of History and the Panorama of today in Northern California...with Text by Nancy Newhall.
San Francisco: The American Trust Company, (1954). First Edition. Read More about The Pageant of History and the Panorama of today in Northern California...with Text by Nancy Newhall
Price: $150
These We Inherit. The Parklands of America.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1962]. First edition. Read More about These We Inherit. The Parklands of America
Price: $150
Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First trade edition. A marvellous group of photographs of the area long associated with Ansel Adams - Yosemite "During his lifetime Adams was arguably the world's most famous photographer, with reproductions of his works hanging everywhere from college dorm rooms to museum galleries the world..... Read More about Yosemite and the Range of Light
Price: $300
Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with greeting from Rocky New Hampshire, Sherman Adams, ---...
np: 1952. Eisenhower's Vicuña Coat Man. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with...
Price: $100
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times. Almanac for 1893 & 1894.
New York: The Scovill & Adams Company, 1893 & 1894. First edition. The Seventh and Eighth Volumes in the series. Read More about The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times. Almanac for 1893 & 1894
Price: $250
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times for 1893.
New York: The Scovill & Adams Company. Read More about The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times for 1893
Price: $125
Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook
Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty.
[Albany: 1860]. Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860, assembled by student Horatio Colony (1835-1917). Opened in 1851, Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s became..... Read More about Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty
Price: $1,500
Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961
Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.
New York: April 18, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961. Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
Price: $2,000
Portrait photograph of Edward Albee.
New York: April 18, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
Price: $1,500
Two tintype stereographs taken at Saratoga Springs of Morton family.
[Saratoga Springs: ca. 1860-1875]. Alden was active in the 1860's and 1870's with studios in Springfield, MA and Providence, RI. Here he captures members of the Morton family, in fine dress; they are most likely on holiday enjoying Saratoga's races and spas. Iron was an unusual medium for the stereograph..... Read More about Two tintype stereographs taken at Saratoga Springs of Morton family
Price: $750
Barnstable County, MA
An ambrotype of a young man, seated with a lap robe at a table with a bottle of wine.
Barnstable County, Mass: [1864]. Barnstable County, MA. Read More about An ambrotype of a young man, seated with a lap robe at a table with a bottle of wine
Price: $450
Rare Signed and Dated Occupational Ambrotype of Two House Painters
Occupational ambrotype of two house painters, with brushes in hand.
n.p: September 15, 1852. Rare Signed and Dated Occupational Ambrotype of Two House Painters. Read More about Occupational ambrotype of two house painters, with brushes in hand
Price: $750
Amherst Class of 1882 Photographic Yearbook.
[841 Broadway New York: Pach Photographer, 1882]. Photographic yearbook album for the Amherst Class of 1882, photographed by the legendary Pach Brothers New York photography firm. This copy belonging to Charles Wilson Loomis. In the 1870s Pach begain operating mobile photography studios in the Northeast, photographing the graduating classes at..... Read More about Amherst Class of 1882 Photographic Yearbook
Price: $750
Amherst College. Class of 1874.
[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874
Price: $2,250
Extra-illustrated with original photos of William Holden
Journey through Kenya. Introduction by William Holden.
London: Bodley Head, [1982]. First edition. Extra-illustrated with original photos of William Holden. This copy extra-illustrated with 12 original photographs of the actor William Holden (1918-1981) and company; Holden had co-founded the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy in the 1960s with his friend Don Hunt, from whose library this copy comes..... Read More about Journey through Kenya. Introduction by William Holden
Price: $750
[Portfolio of photographic plates issued to accompany: The Caura, a Narrative of a Journey up the Caura River].
Trinidad: Printed at the Mirror Office, 1902. One of 500 copies published of the portfolio of photographic plates issued to accompany Andre's account of his explorations into the interior of Venezuela. A Trinidadian botanist and explorer, Andre journed inland up the Caura River into the jungles of Venezuela between November 1900..... Read More about Portfolio of photographic plates issued to accompany: The Caura, a Narrative of a Journey up the...
Price: $950
Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride's Crossing.
Boston: J. Eastman Chase, 7 Hamilton Place, [1891]. A rare photographic portrait of Massachusetts’ North Shore region, including Manchester by the Sea, Beverly Farms, and Pride’s Crossing, with beautifully reproduced photogravures by Jeanette M. Appleton. Read More about Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride's Crossing
Price: $2,250
Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen.
New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
Price: $2,600
![Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman]. Armless Woman](/pictures/thumb/246496.jpg?v=1534805958)
Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph
[Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman].
ca. 1911. Armless Woman, Inscribed Photograph. Three quarters portrait of an armless Mexican woman named Concha. Miraculously, she has inscribed the verso in an elegant copperplate hand, “Cata: La cinceridad de mi cariño, se la demuestra el presente recuerdo de la ultima de tus amigas. Concha. Apetatitlán, 15 April de..... Read More about Original photograph portrait of Concha, an armless Mexican Woman
Price: $250