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Two un-mounted, toned silver prints measuring 5 x 8 inches.

Waite was a California photographer who went to Mexico in 1896. He opened a studio in Mexico City and for the next seventeen years produced a large body of work depicting the daily life of the Mexican people. There are 3,400 of his photographs in the National Archives of Mexico. His commercial work was reproduced in books, pamphlets, postcards, numerous periodicals, and promotional literature.

A group of five mounted albumen photographs measuring 5 x 8 1/4 inches, with the photographer's hand-stamps on the verso. All edges gilt, one mount chipped.

Three of the images show views of the Alameda, near the corners of San Diego Street and Avenida Juarez, with ink notations at the bottom of the mounts. The other two are of a house, presumably at this location. On the verso of one view is written in pencil "For Anita. Taken Sept. 20/85."

Photograph of a German girl, posed with her Christmas tree and many new toys. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Stamped on verso: " Lindstedt and Zimmermann/ Coblenz am Rhine, Kaiserin-Augusta-Ring Nr. 3/ Artistic Photographs, Medal for Photographic Work Telefon 1952. And in pencil: "1922."

Unmounted silver gelatin photograph of Santiago Naranjo, of the Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Circa 1925. The photograph measures 7 x 5 inches, is sepia toned and has some very minor surface soiling.

Santiago Naranjo was Tribal Governor from 1911 to 1930.

Cabinet card photographs showing six children holding dumb bells, Indian clubs and poles. Possibly posed as a class in physical education. The photographer is Muma of Holstein, Iowa, circa 1890.

A season's greetings and promotional from the Gallup American Coal Company, featuring an original sepia-toned silver gelatin photograph mounted to the greetings. The piece measures 12 1/2 x 6 and is folded once; the photograph measures 3 3/4 x 6 inches and has some minor staining in the background portion.

The Willis photograph is a three quarter length portrait of Hoski Yashe, the 104 year old Navaho Chief.

Mounted albumen photograph measuring 7 x 9 inches extracted from an album, the mount meauring 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Corners of mount chipped, but a rich, detailed image.

Shown is a view down the Calle del Arco in Antigua, Guatemala. In the background is the Volcan Agua and in the center the famous Arco de Santa Catalina.

Profusely illustrated from photographs by Mary Peck. With an Essay by Charles Wilkinson. 9 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Green cloth with dust jacket. Housed in a custom made box bound by Hands On Bookbinding.

ONE OF 25 COPIES, with an original photograph titled "Elwha River, Geyser Valley, 1998" laid-in. Mary Peck has been photographing landscape in various parts of the world for more than thirty-five years. Her work has been exhibited widely and her photographs are held in many collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Denver Art Museum and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin."

12 pages. With two large mounted albumen photographs showing the assembled and disassembled skeleton of a large fossilized bird. The images measure 10 ½ x 7 ½ inches ( 267 x 191 mm.). Folio, 13 x 9 ¾ inches ( 330 x 229 mm.). Yellow printed wrappers; a bright, clean copy.

After studying medicine at Tubingen, Jäger became the director of the Viennese Zoological Garden. It was at this time that he published the above paper with its two extraordinary photographs of a nearly complete skeleton of a Palapteryx Ingens. In 1868 he was appointed professor of zoology at the Academy of Hohenheim and subsequently he taught zoology and anthropology at Stuttgart Polytechnic. He published extensively and in 1876 suggested an early hypothesis in explanation of heredity. Heidtmann. #1008.

An album, most likely from the 1920's, containing two colored woodcuts of costumed puppets and 17 mounted gelatin silver prints showing 40 traditional puppet heads used in the Bunraku theater. Each page is faced with mounted text in Japanese, and a previous owner has added tipped-in English translations. The text describes the character, notes moving parts, and the role each puppet plays. The photographs measure between 4 x 3 inches ( 102 x 76 mm.) and 5 1/2 x 4 inches ( 140 x 102 mm.). The first photograph is missing. Oblong octavo, 7 1/2 x 11 inches ( 191 x 279 mm.); beige boards with a torn, mounted Japanese woodcut on cover; string tie.

Bunraku is a blending of storytelling and puppetry - "possibly the most developed form of puppetry in the world," - www.japan-zone.com. First developed in Osaka in 1684, the art flowered during the eighteenth century and then lost favor until recent times. The puppets are large, usually about half life-size and the main characters are operated by three puppeteers. The main puppeteer, who manipulates the head, is seen on stage, generally dressed in bright robes, while his assistants wear black.

A beautiful photographic album containing three hand-colored photographs of Queen Victoria and her family, ten hand-colored genre and floral photographs, 27 black and white English views, mostly by George Washington Wilson, and four uncolored photographs of paintings. The final image is a surreal image of a large group of donkey heads titled "The United Eleven." Full green embossed morocco in original cloth case; pristine.

A group of 23 documents, from 17 countries, to Charles Francis Jones of San Francisco, offering patent protection, first in his name, than in the company name "Colorco" for a method of making color film for both still and motion pictures and for the manufacture of cameras to project such film. The letters of patent come from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. They date from 1916 to 1922 and come with an array of official seals and stamps. Mostly 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Generally in fine condition.

A large, handsome photographic album for this German Agricultural Society Exposition. There are 115 gelatin silver prints, mounted to 43 stiff leaves. Some leaves have printed or manuscript captions. A few photographs have the blind stamps of the photographers Rob. Heinrick of Altona and Zander & Labisch, of Berlin. The images measure from 4 x 6 inches ( 102 x 152 mm.) to 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (191 x 241 mm.). Thick oblong folio, 12 x 16 inches ( 305 x 406 mm.). Full calf, with cover design in gilt, depicting a farmer at a plow. The binding is signed on the rear cover, 'Adolf Schloss, Berlin.' Covers show minor wear.

Photographs of the exposition's opening ceremonies are followed by depictions in profile of prize winning horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, rabbits, and fowl. One interesting image shows a photographer with his set-up photographing one of these prize winning specimens. Equestrian displays and other exhibitions as well as the interiors and exteriors of the buildings are pictured in many of the photographs. There are six overviews of the fair showing the large crowds and extensive grounds.
Though taken just a few years after Germany's defeat in a world war, the crowds and pride in the livestock shown in these photographs display an optimism not often seen in 1920's Germany. Founded in 1885, the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft is still active today, with over 17,000 members worldwide.

Group of nine mounted albumen photographs on card stock, with gold borders. The unidentified photographer has reproduced engravings by Gustave Dore. Each mount has a section of Tennyson's poem printed in black. The nine photographs are housed in a red leatherette slipcase, with the words "Enid. Dore" printed in gold. The images measure 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. The photographs and case are in fine condition.

Inside the case is the inscription "From Will, Xmas 1879." These nine masterful illustrations were originally issued for Dore's illustrated edition of ENID in 1868.

72 pages of text. Frontispiece portrait of the artist, 4 x 2 1/2 inches (102 x 64 mm.), in Photoglyptie (woodburytype) by Lemarcier & Cie., from a negative by Charles Desavary. Twelvemo, 7 x 4 1/2 inches (178 x 114 mm.). Printed purple wrappers.

A fine copy of this catalog for an exhibition that took place in the year of Camille Corot's death. The catalog lists 197 of the artist's paintings. Included is a six-page chronology from 1827 to 1867 of salon exhibitions where Corot exhibited his paintings.

104 pages. With folding map (with tape repairs), wood engraved views and six anonymous mounted albumen photographs, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (140 x 89 mm.), each having arched tops. Large octavo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (241 x 159 mm.). Green cloth; wear to covers.

The fourth annual report on Philadelphia's grand Fairmount Park, the largest landscaped park in the United States. Four years after the publication of this report, this park was to be the home of our great Centennial Exhibition of 1876. The landscape photographs in this volume are in the tradition of east coast nature studies, closely resembling the style of the photographer John Moran. Public Works Department reports of this period from New York, Boston, and other cities also contained original mounted photographs, but by the 1880's the use of original photographs in these reports was discontinued.

A class album for the Free Academy of New York (renamed The City College of New York in 1866). The first 13 pages have autographed sentiments from the president, Horace Webster, and a number of professors. There are then 31 stiff leaves, each with a mounted oval salt print portrait of a graduating student, elegant young men dressed in their finest clothing. Here are some of the earliest photographic portraits of higher education graduates in the United States. Each photograph is mounted within a printed border and has a facsimile signature. The photographs measure 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches ( 89 x 64 mm.) on an 11 x 8 ½ inch (279 x 216 mm.) page. Each image has a tissue guard and an additional page on which classmates wrote sentiments to the album's owner, Walter Brinckerhoff, Jr., whose name is stamped in gold on the front cover. Quarto, contemporary black morocco with gilt; neatly rebacked. There is foxing on a few pages and some edge-fading to a few salt prints. Loosely laid in is the pamphlet "Merit Roll, New York Free Academy, July 1854." New York: E.O. Jenins, printer, 1854. Four duplicate salt prints are also loosely inserted.

Our research suggests that the first photographic class album was issued at Harvard University in 1852. Boston photographer John Adams Whipple made original daguerreotypes of the students and from these he produced copies with the crystalotype process and pasted the copy prints in albums. We have found no reference to a class album being issued with paper photographs taken from life prior to this 1855 Free Academy Souvenir.
An experiment in higher education for the masses and one of the first tuition-free, municipal colleges in the United States, the Free Academy of New York opened in 1849. Seventeen young men graduated at its first commencement exercises at Niblo's Garden in 1853. By 1870, a division for women, eventually named Hunter College, was added to educate teachers for the growing public school system.
This album includes sentiments (though no photographs) by the following notable professors; Horace Webster, Wolcott Gibbs, and Charles Edward Anthon. Also included are photographs and inscriptions from some notable students: Elihu Dwight Church. A partner in the company, founded by his father, that was to become the "Arm and Hammer Baking Soda" firm. He was a great book collector of Americana and his library, which included the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, was purchased by Henry Huntington for $1,000,000; Everett P. Wheeler. Graduated the Free Academy in 1855. Wheeler became a prominent lawyer and civic reformer and was a founder of the New York Bar. In 1891 he assisted in the founding of the East Side House, a part of the New York settlement movement; Charles. B. Hayes. Enlisted in the Muscatine County Volunteers, Company C, on April 22, 1861. He became a Sergeant and in August of that year was wounded at the Battle at Wilson's Creek, Missouri; Henry A. Post. Colonel Post commanded the 2nd Regiment of Sharpshooters from 1861 to 1863.

A portfolio of ten large mounted gelatin silver prints of the Krupp armament plant in Essen/Ruhr. The images measure from 11 x 9 inches ( 229 x 279 mm.) to 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches ( 165 x 222 mm.). They are on stiff gray mounts, 12 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches ( 318 x 387 mm.), each with a red border and a printed caption in French. Oblong folio, 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches ( 328 x 387 mm.). Housed in their original green cloth portfolio, title in gilt. [Accompanied by]: DONNÉES STATISTIQUES. FRIED. KRUPP, AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT. Essen/Ruhr, 1909. 144 pages of text in French, and profusely illustrated in half-tone, including reproductions of the photographs in the portfolio. Octavo, 8 x 51/4 inches ( 203 x 133 mm.). Matching green cloth, title in gilt.

A photograph of the original wooden structure that housed Krupp's first factory, surrounded by the huge development of factories, furnaces, and supplies that made up the Krupp Essen/Ruhr works, opens the portfolio. Eight images show the smelting, pouring, storing, and assembly of various large guns. There are monstrous hydraulic presses, vast chain hoists, and always hundreds of workers. A final photograph is an exterior view with numerous large cannons ready for shipment.
In 1811, Friedrich Krupp opened a factory in his hometown of Essen in the Ruhr river valley, providing high-quality cast steel for tools and dies. His son Alfred took over at Friedrich's death and in 1859 received an order from the Prussian government for the production of munitions to be used in the Franco-Prussian War. Leading up to World War I, Krupp made millions constructing the armor plating that protected German battleships and fabricating the huge cannons it is best known for. This French edition of the portfolio and text proudly presents Krupp's capacity to build the largest, strongest, and best cannons of their day. Published three years before the devastation of the First World War.

268 pages. Illustrated. 4to, blue cloth (issued without a dust jacket)

First edition, one of 1000 copies printed. Lists over 500 children's books illustrated from photographs.