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Photographs as Art and History
11:00 AM PT - Apr 19th, 2007

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78 Rockland Ave.
Yonkers, NY 10705
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121 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
51 Lot 51

Fine photograph European butcher
8 ¾" x 6 3/8 matte print. It looks like a platinum print, th...

300
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500
52 Lot 52

Two Faience Pottery Factory scenes, Paris
Pair of 6 ½" x 9" glossy gelatin-silver prints in imprinted ...

300
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500
53 Lot 53

Farm Equipment catalog as modern art, 45 prints
Amazing salesman's album ca. 1900 of "Planet Junior" farm eq...

1,000
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1,500
1 Bid
54 Lot 54

19 rich Large gravures identified American mansions
19 rich large gravures plus 1 cyanotype, 11" x 13", mounted ...

500
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1,000
55 Lot 55

Important 1860's Italian albumen shepherd & ram
7" x 9 7/8" albumen print with number "73" in the negative, ...

1,800
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2,400
56 Lot 56

Hand colored medical albumen, parasite disease
Imprinted title is "Maladies Parasitaires - Favus" by A. Mon...

300
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500
3 Bids
57 Lot 57

Early Floral study Paris by Eugene Atget
8 7/8" x 7 1/8" albumen print. "Rose Tremiere" and number "6...

3,600
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4,000
58 Lot 58

Paris Street, albumen by Atget
8 1/8" x 6 7/8" albumen print. "St. Séverin" and the number ...

3,600
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4,000
59 Lot 59

Artist's Studio Paris Courtyard Atget albumen
8 3/8" x 6 7/8" albumen print. "Hotel Le Charron – 15 quai b...

3,500
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4,000
60 Lot 60

Paris Courtyard, Atget/Abbott
9 3/8" x 7" gelatin-silver print. "15 quai Bourbon" and numb...

1,200
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1,500
61 Lot 61

Bremen Germany album, 52 CDV's and cabinets
Ca. 1890. A wonderful album consisting of 36 CDV's and 16 c...

300
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500
2 Bids
62 Lot 62

Bengal scene in India, albumen by S. Bourne
9 3/8" x 11 3/8" albumen print, signed by Bourne in the nega...

300
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600
63 Lot 63

Hawaii tropical scene 1927 Gum Print by F. Warren
"The Storm" by F. Warren, 1927. Rich gum print, 9 1/8" x 6 7...

600
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1,000
64 Lot 64

Hawaii Kamehameha's residence, Chase, Waikiki scene
This was the residence of Kamehameha V. 6 ½" x 9" albumen pr...

1,500
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2,000
65 Lot 65

Lovely African woman, albumen by Sebah
10 ½" x 8 ¼" albumen print titled "247 Négresse" and signed ...

400
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600
66 Lot 66

Abysinnian woman, lovely African portrait by Sebah
10 ½" x 8 ¼" albumen print titled "345 – Type Abysinienne" a...

340
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500
67 Lot 67

Lovely profile Martinique woman, 1922
6 7/8" x 4 ¾" bromide print. Stamp for "A.F.L" [A. F. Lallem...

400
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600
68 Lot 68

Maori Guide "Maggie" 1903 N. Zealand
8 1/8" x 5 ¾" glossy purple print titled, copyright 1903 by ...

400
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500
69 Lot 69

Blind musican Peru, woman pictorialist 1935
"Blind Musician/ Arequipa Peru." 14" x 11" matte print by So...

400
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600
70 Lot 70

Santa Barbara pictorial, Fred R. Archer
"High and Dry/ Santa Barbara." 10 3/8" x 10 ½" brown gelatin...

1,400
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1,800
71 Lot 71

Woman kneeling in Mosque, Malaya, Horace Bristol
7 ½" x 9 ½" gelatin-silver print, late 1940's [?], printed l...

500
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1,000
72 Lot 72

Saudi Arabia, western visitors King Saud, 19 photos
19 – 8" x 10" glossy photographs dealing with a train trip w...

500
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1,000
73 Lot 73

Edgerton, Mosquito tries to sting, experimental
8" x 10" glossy gelatin-silver photograph, 2 4-frame strips....

1,000
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1,500
74 Lot 74

Edgerton, vintage original bullet-through-can
8" x 10" gelatin-silver print with pen notation on the verso...

700
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1,200
1 Bid
75 Lot 75

Edgerton, Cock fight experimental photo 1930's
8" x 10" gelatin-silver print on heavy matte paper. Typed l...

440
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600
4 Bids
76 Lot 76

Vintage 1930's Rural Electrification, before/after
Pair of 8" x 10" gelatin-silver prints with "Rural Electrifi...

300
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500
1 Bid
77 Lot 77

Vintage Depression USDA Food stamps for the blind
Two 8" x 10" glossy photographs.

a) People in a grocery s...

100
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300
78 Lot 78

Vintage FSA medical dental , Rothstein Vachon
Three 8" x 10" glossy gelatin-silver prints.

a) "A physic...

400
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600
79 Lot 79

8 Vintage FSA depression-era agricultural group
a) Dramatic composition of silos. 8" x 10" glossy silver pri...

220
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320
80 Lot 80

Rothstein, Dust Storm, large, signed, framed
by Arthur Rothstein. Large 19" x 19" gelatin-silver print of...

2,500
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3,500
3 Bids
81 Lot 81

"Rose of Sharon" Horace Bristol Grapes of Wrath
7 1/8" x 5 ¾" image on 10" x 8" paper, 1937,38, printed late...

1,000
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1,500
82 Lot 82

Jazz Great Billie Holiday, signed Herman Leonard
12 ¼" x 9 ¾" gelatin-silver print, printed later. One of the...

500
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750
4 Bids
83 Lot 83

Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, signed Herman Leonard
12 ¼" x 9 7/8" gelatin-silver print, printed later. The grea...

400
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600
12 Bids
84 Lot 84

Carl Van Vechten self-portrait with Ethel Waters
Carl Van Vechten made many portraits of the great black blue...

400
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600
85 Lot 85

Sculptor Pasquale Nava, Rome 1998, Judy Dater
Brilliant 1998 portrait of the Italian sculptor, No. 1 of an...

300
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500
2 Bids
86 Lot 86

Rabindranath Tagore in Japan, 1916, signed
The great Indian Bengali poet, philosopher, spiritual leader...

800
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1,200
2 Bids
87 Lot 87

Photographer Clarence White by Doris Ulmann
8" x 6" matte vintage gelatin-silver print on heavy paper, s...

3,600
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4,000
88 Lot 88

Important 1920 self-portrait by Hagemeyer
Johan Hagemeyer made a sea voyage for a visit back to his na...

18,000
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28,000
1 Bid
89 Lot 89

Psychiatrist Alfred Adler Hagemeyer 1929 Berkeley
9 1/8" x 6 7/8" gelatin-silver print, with Johan Hagemeyer's...

500
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600
2 Bids
90 Lot 90

Jane Bouse, Carmel Johan Hagemeyer's companion 1934
4 ½" x 3 3/8"gelatin-silver print on a larger mount, Signed ...

360
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500
91 Lot 91

George Ancourt by Hagemeyer Camera Portraits Carmel
Rich profile portrait of a member of the circle of artistic ...

200
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300
1 Bid
92 Lot 92

Vasia Anenkeyev Portrait by Hagemeyer, 1938 Carmel
9 ¼" x 6 7/8" gelatin-silver print, with Hagemeyer's "Camera...

200
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300
93 Lot 93

Nude sculpture, Hagemeyer photo
9 1/8" x 6 ¾" gelatin-silver print, with Hagemeyer's "Camera...

200
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300
94 Lot 94

San Francisco Scene by Johan Hagemeyer
6" x 4 ½" gelatin-silver print, looking down from roof or w...

2,000
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3,000
95 Lot 95

San Francisco Skyline, Twilight, by Hagemeyer
4 7/8" x 6 ¼" gelatin-silver print. "Johan Hagemeyer/ Camera...

2,500
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3,500
96 Lot 96

Abbott, "New York at Night" lovely 1970 signed
13 ½" x 10 ½" gelatin silver print, signed by Berenice Abbot...

6,500
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7,500
97 Lot 97

Abstract Chicago scene by Gordon Coster ca. 1948
Vintage 11" x 14" gelatin-silver print, ca. 1948. "Photograp...

600
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1,200
98 Lot 98

Street Scene Milan O. Tom Leonard 1944
11" x 14" vintage toned gelatin-silver print on original boa...

300
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600
99 Lot 99

Fabulous Street Scene Milan O. Tom Leonard 1944
11" x 14" vintage toned gelatin-silver print on original boa...

300
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600
100 Lot 100

Lively Midwest Street Scene Tom Leonard 1944
11" x 14" vintage toned gelatin-silver print on original boa...

300
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600
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