Be-hold 44 - Session 1

"CUT AT ALTA, LOOKING EAST." No. 787, on beige mount by Muybridge, Helios Flying Studio. "Central Pacific Railroad" overprinted...

Copy views on large yellow mounts, similar to the "Famous Black Hills Views" Lots 87 - 90. Super street view with lines of Oxen, many esta...

. Large yellow/gray mounts, no imprint but related to previous lot. Wonderful view looking out from under branches at group of cowboys, chuck wagon, a

His no. 86, "Fort Tongass, View from the Fort." Yellow/violet view with advertising verso. Cannon, boat. Minor digs at left of right view.

3 "amateur" views on gray mounts, circa 1900, with typed strip labels on the verso. a) "River boats on beach, St. Michael, Alaska.&qu...

25 sepia views on buff Underwood & Underwood mounts. Some have printed titles, and must have been regularly issued, but most don't and seem...

. Pretty woman covered by her blanket gazes out the window. No. 1114 on buff mount by Littleton View Company seems a nice way to end this section and

Large (48" x 19") hand-colored lithograph mounted on board. The life size face is so life-like I first thought this was an actual photogra...

3 superb salted paper prints, 8" x 6" ovals on individual loose album pages. Pencil numbers on verso probably indicated location in the al...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE, by John Thompson. 4 volumes, 1873 -1874. Approximately 19" x 14". Interesting and informative text ...

. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4" platinum print by John Claude White. White was the photographer for the Younghusband Military Expedition to Tibet in 190...

7 1/4" x 10" albumen print on album page. No imprint. Domed churches up on hill with broken rampart. Peasant huts below, clouds in sky. Sl...

4 3/4" x 6 1/2" albumen print on album page (probably the same album as previous.) No imprint. Signs for Coffee House and other establishm...

. PALACE OF THE PRESIDENT -- PANAMA, 1877, by Eadweard Muybridge. 5 1/2" x 9 3/8" albumen print. Page 21 from "The Pacific Coast of ...

4 7/8" x 6 7/8" cool-tone gelatin-silver print on mount with A. Streich blindstamp on mount, notations in Spanish on verso. Name of the to...

6" x 4 1/2" blue folder with a blue-toned gelatin silver postcard by Hugo Brehme pasted into the indented area. Inside page is boldly insc...

7 loose album pages with 6 3/8" x 9" toned gelatin silver prints on each side. 10 or 11 scenes from Jamaica, the others from Madeira. Seve...

6 7/8" x 5 1/2" sepia gelatin silver print [mimics albumen] on board mount. A theatrical group. Back row: 4 Indian men, probably Ojibway....

6 1/2" x 9 1/2" red-toned silver print, on rustic double mat, with embossed stamp for Clark & Clark, Roseburg, Oregon. This red toning...

5" x 8 1/2" gelatin-silver print, the Goodyear blimp "Resolute" with Mobilgas emblem. Date stamp on verso May 26. 1936.

10" x 12" sepia gelatin silver print on board, trimmed to the print. No imprint. Chickens hang from the ceiling. Slabs of meat lie on a bl...

6" x 8 1/8" toned print on board mount. Interesting image of a Spanish-American War company cooking in the street. Brownstones in back. &q...

6" x 7 3/4" gelatin silver print, no imprint but title in pen on verso, with number 17816. "Madame Tetrazzini Singing at Lotta's ...

Toned silver photo postcard by E. F. Foley, N.Y., signed by the singer London 1909. I loved the previous image so much I couldn't resist accompa...

. "CHALK CREEK CANON." 10" x 13" rich purple unmounted print by W. H. Jackson, with number "45," title and Denver cre...

11" x 14" toned gelatin silver print. Group at Muir Pass. Camera case on ground, lower right. Probably an early Sierra Club outing. No imp...

7 7/8" x 9 3/4" image area on 11" x 14" sheet. Came with previous lot, and is most likely another Yosemite scene, a larger group...

YOSEMITE SCENE WITH PEOPLE ON HORSEBACK, BY ANSEL ADAMS. 10" x 6 3/8" gelatin silver print, with Adams' Yosemite stamp on verso, titl...

Four toned gelatin silver prints. a) "Mt. Edwards and Sperry Glacier" [pen verso] with figure posed. b) 4068.

5 3/4" X 7 7/8" toned print on textured-surface. No credit, but probably also by Hileman. Rich beautiful print.

5 5/8" x 4" toned silver print in 4-page folder with embossed crown design. Typed label beneath reads "Wonderful Wheeler." He wa...

3 vintage 9" x 7" prints, ca. 1938, of this Italian film actor and physical culturist, One on gray mount, two with mount remnants on verso...

4 photo postcards with the embossed stamp of Navana, London. Stamps of Back and from A. P. Mead on the verso. Mead "discovered" Back at th...

By "Yrélaw." That name is "Walery" in reverse! His signature and numbers in the negative. Two matte 9" x 7" print...

Glossy brown-toned photo postcard.

2 rows of five, the top seen upside down. Color prints with rich applied color. Girl with hoop and toys/ Mother and daughter. These are by "Per...

Another uncut sheet by "Perfect," series 1 and 2. The super-brilliant color and the upside-down arrangement put the sentimentality into a ...

Two uncut sheets, color prints but no applied color. Couple with letter by "EKC" and amorous couple by "Corona." These duplicate...

Close-ups of smiling women with flowers, by "Ela" and "E.P." and a vertical strip of a couple on the beach, with applied color b...

Portfolio of 6 lovely 8" x 6" prints, gravures of very high quality by Henri Manuel, early 1920's, on a silk-like paper that generates...

Wonderful group of 15 vintage prints of this beautiful dancer who was a major cultural figure in pre-WWI US. With her husband Vernon, who died at an e

As one of the partners of Maurice Mouvet, she was part of the popular dance scene of the 1910's, along with the Castles. Their specialty was the...

Collection of 36 gelatin silver and platinum prints of these stars of the silent cinema. Constance was a sensation in D. W. Griffith's INTOLERAN...

Interesting figure from the silent film era. She was in several Ziegfield shows, then some films. At the age of 25, in 1920, she married Mary Pickford

Pair of 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" brown-toned gelatin silver prints by Ira L. Hill, NYC (signed in the negative) of a lovely actress. One is endorse...

Three 11" x 8" gelatin silver prints. Two are endorsed on recto by this lovely dancer "To Hubert with love & best wishes-- Youssi...

13" x 10" matte toned print tipped onto mount, signed in lower right "Cele/ 9 - - 26." Strangely masked below her shoulder, thou...

5" x 7" gelatin silver print. Hine's "Interpretive Photography/ Hastings-on-Hudson" stamp on verso, plus red crayon number.

8" x 10" gelatin silver print, 1942. From Siegel's estate, signed in pencil on verso by Adam Siegel. Evidently this is the only print ...

11 1/4" x 14" gelatin silver print by Gordon Coster, with "Photography Gordon Coster" stamp on verso. My guess is ca. 1960 print.