2007 Feb Americana Grand Format Auction #659

<B>1860 Charleston PORTER Slave Hire Badge- NGC Certified. Number 211.</B></I> A very slightly convex diamond-shaped tag with clip...

<B>1860 Charleston SERVANT Slave Hire Badge. Number 2175.</B></I> A slightly convex diamond-shaped tag with clipped and rounded co...

<B>1860 Charleston SERVANT Slave Hire Badge. Number 2679.</B></I> A slightly convex diamond-shaped tag with clipped corners and a ...

<B>1846 W. W. Wilbur Token Advertising a Charleston Slave Auctioneer.</B></I> 27mm. Obverse pictures an auctioneer at center stand...

<B>Antique Mini-Sampler "We's Free"</B></I> Can you imagine the joy felt by a slave who is told that they are now fr...

<B>Pair of Minstrel Songsters</B></I> A pair of minstrel songsters one coming from a performance at the outset of the Civil War. B...

<B>Lawsuit Archive Pertaining to a Georgia Slave's Medical Care.</B></I> Three manuscript documents, four pages with docketing...

<B>Roster of African-Americans Receiving Federal Passes.</B></I> Manuscript document, "<I>list of oyster men that passe...

<B>Antebellum Estate Inventory Itemizing Slaves.</B></I> Manuscript document, "<I>A list of my negroes</B></I&...

<B>Group of Six Slavery Documents.</B></I> A diverse lot spanning some 70 years and covering varied geographic areas. Included are...

<B>Seven Georgia Slave Documents.</B></I> An excellent grouping of legal papers with slave content from the heyday of the "Pe...

<B>Ship's Expense Account Mentions Black Labor.</B></I> Manuscript document, one page, 6" x 12", n.p., January, 1764...

<B>Early Estate Auction Record Itemizing Slave.</B></I> Manuscript document, six pp., 7.75" x 13", n.p., n.d. This is an...

<B>Four Legal Documents Pertaining to Slaves.</B></I> An especially fine group as follows:<BR><B>Partially printed cou...

<B>Abolition of Slavery: A Rare Multicolor Lithograph Celebrating the Passage by Congress of a Constitutional Amendment to Finally Abolish Sla...

<B>1826 Alabama, Dallas County, Slave Sale Document.</B></I> One page, 7.75" x 9.75", handwritten, dated February 4, 182...

<B>Early 1834 Congressional Report and Map of Fort Sumter</B></I> in Charleston Harbor and pin pointing Fort Moultrie and Fort Joh...

<B>Pro-Slavery Letters to Congressman S.S. Cox of Ohio.</B></I> Two letters to this member of the House of Representatives from Oh...

<B>1859 Dinwiddie County Virginia Slave Tax Document.</B></I> One page, 8" x 6.5", dated December 19, 1859, framed under...

<B>Uncle Tom's Cabin Stoneware Pitcher.</B></I> 7" high, manufactured by Ridgway & Abington, Staffordshire, England, ...

<B>1870-1871 Hotel Register From The Drovers Hotel Pueblo, Colorado.</B></I> This historically significant register will be a valu...

<B>Wounded Knee Massacre Archive Including Effects From the Estate of General Leonard W. Colby and Telling the Story of Lost Bird.</B>&l...

<B>Beautiful Hotel Cody Sterling Cigar Box.</B></I> An attractive three-tiered box, 9.5" x 6.25" x 4.75", from the ...

<B>Western Photography and Ephemera Collection.</B></I> Large group of approximately 75 items, late nineteenth - early twentieth c...

<B>Gold Nugget Mined in Leadville, Colorado in 1899.</B></I> Included is a gold nugget which has been made into a pin with a total...

<B>Chief Crow Feather Portrait By Dolph Levino.</B></I> Artist-signed colored sketch, 5" x 6.5" on 8" x 10" mo...

<B>Edward S. Curtis: <I>The North American Indian Volume Three</B></I></B></I> <I>Being a Series of Volume...

<B>Edward S. Curtis: <I>The North American Indian Volume Ten</B></I></B></I> <I>Being a Series of Volumes ...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Collection of 35 Volume Photogravures</B></I> from <I>The North American Indian.</B></I> The...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Silver Print "Jich Shiggie- An Apache," Signed</B></I> in the negative "Copyrighted 19...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Silver Gelatin Print "Carved Posts At Alert Bay."</B></I> Approximately 13.25" x 10.25...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Silver Print "Makah Indian Hand Spinning Yarn" Signed</B></I> in the negative "Curtis ...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "A Southern Miwok" Plate 495</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissue mounted...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "A Chukchansi Yokuts Type" Plate 504</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissue...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Portfolio Photogravure "Nespilim Girl" Plate 246,</B></I> copyright 1905. Original image size 11&quo...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "An Assiniboin Camp" Plate 107</B></I> on Zonen Holland Van Gelder p...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "Group of Winter Dancers - Qágyuhl" Plate 348</B></I> on Zonen ...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "A Yauelmani Yokuts" Plate 498</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissue mount...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Portfolio Photogravure "Old Person - Piegan" Plate 204,</B></I> copyright 1911. Original image size ...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "Tolowa Dancing Head-Dress" Plate 455</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissu...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "A Coast Pomo Woman" Plate 483</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissue mount...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Original Portfolio Photogravure "Captain Charley - Maricopa" Plate 71</B></I> on Japanese Rice Tissu...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Portfolio Photogravure "Medicine Crow - Apsaroke" Plate 117,</B></I> copyright 1908. Original image ...

<B>Edward S. Curtis Portfolio Photogravure "Wisham Girl, Profile" Plate 279,</B></I> copyright 1910. Original image size...

<B>Asahel Curtis Very Rare Original Large Plate Orotone of Mount Rainier and Paradise Lodge</B></I> in the original frame. Signed ...

<B>Asahel Curtis Original Hand Tinted Photo of Mount Rainier,</B></I> an area he truly loved. The sight size of this image is 11&q...

<B>Asahel Curtis Original Hand Tinted Photo of Mount Baker</B></I> in the Washington Cascades. The negative number "41902&quo...

<B>Asahel Curtis Original Hand Tinted Photo of Mount Rainier Signed</B></I> in the lower left corner "21805 ASAHEL CURTIS&quo...

<B>Asahel Curtis Original Hand Tinted Photo "Dawn"</B></I> in original "pie crust" frame, signed "© ...

<B>Asahel Curtis: <I>Art Work of Seattle and Western Washington</B></I></B></I> <I>Edition De Luxe of Phot...

<B>James B. Barton Original Orotone of Mount Rainier at Sunrise</B></I> in the original frame, circa 1900, signed in the negative ...

<B>James B. Barton Original Orotone of Mount Rainier and Mirror Lake</B></I> in the original "pie crust" frame, circa 19...

<B>Arthur C. Pillsbury Extremely Rare Original D'Orotone "Sunshine Through Redwoods".</B></I> This is an original ci...

<B>Arthur C. Pillsbury Original Orotone of Half Dome at Yosemite</B></I> in original frame. Sight size of photo is 10.5" x 13...

<B>Arthur C. Pillsbury Rare Original Silvertone Photograph</B></I> of a stand of trees lining the shore of a pond. 10.5" x 13...

<B>Carleton Watkins Vintage Goldtone of Yosemite</B></I> made from the original negative and in original frame. Sight size is 10.2...

<B>Carleton Watkins: Collection of Twelve Albumen Photographs</B></I> including one of legendary naturalist John Muir. These wonde...

<B>Carleton Watkins Original Mammoth Plate Albumen Photograph</B></I> from the wet-collodion negative of El Capitan in Yosemite Va...

<B>Carleton Watkins Original Mammoth Plate Albumen Photograph</B></I> from the wet-collodion negative. Titled "View Down the ...

<B>William Henry Jackson Albumen of the Royal Gorge in Colorado.</B></I> Jackson (1843-1942) certainly led an interesting (and qui...

<B>Howard Clinton Tibbitts Original Sepia Silver Print with Blindstamp</B></I> "H. C. Tibbitts / San Francisco" in the l...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Orotone of Mount Rainier</B></I> signed "Norman Edson ©" in the lower left and...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph of Mount Rainier Signed</B></I> "Norman Edson ©" at the lower right...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph of Mount Rainier Signed</B></I> at the lower left "Norman Edson ©" ...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph of Mount Rainier and Paradise Lodge Signed</B></I> at the lower left "Norman ...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph of Mirror Lake at Mount Rainier Signed</B></I> at the lower left "Norman Edso...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph of Mount Rainier</B></I> from the coast of Seattle. Signed at the lower left "...

<B>Norman Edson Original Hand Tinted Photograph "The Silver Lining" Signed</B></I> "Norman Edson ©" in th...

<B>Frank Fiske: <I>Portfolio Volumes I and II</B></I></B></I> consisting of 30 contact photographs of 7.25"...

<B>William Dassonville: 67 Original 1908 California Mission Platinum Prints</B></I> contained in two custom leather-bound albums b...

<B>Southern Pacific Railroad Original Photo Album with 90+ Oregon Photographs,</B></I> circa 1900. A ledger-style clothbound album...

<B><I>Cruise of the "Monongahela":</B></I></B></I> <B>Collection of 96 Circa 1880 Hand-Tinted Al...

<B>Doris Ulmann Signed Platinum Print.</B></I> A 3/4 length portrait of a woman standing by a field of daisies. She is wearing a h...

<B>Doris Ulmann Signed Platinum Print of a Catholic Nun.</B></I> A pictorialist inspired by the paintings of the European old mast...

<B>Doris Ulmann Signed Platinum Print of Paul Robeson.</B></I> Though known primarily as a photographer who specialized in documen...

<B>W. Eugene Smith Signed Silver Gelatin Photo Print</B></I> entitled "Africa- Leprosy Patient" in pencil by Smith to th...

<B>CDV of Unidentified Native American Woman.</B></I> This image dates from the late nineteenth century and illustrates a seated N...

<B>Sitting Bull: A Scarce Early Cabinet Photo of the Sioux Chief "In Command At The Custer Massacre".</B></I> An O.S. Go...

<B>Large Lot of Tintypes Featuring African-American Women.</B></I> Six tintypes with interesting studies of well-dressed African-A...

<B>Five Tintypes Featuring African-American Men.</B></I> A group of mixed-size images of men in a variety of seated and standing p...

<B>Pair of Tintypes Featuring African-American Children.</B></I> Two remarkably clear tintypes with portraits of seated children. ...

<B>Mixed Lot of Tintypes of African-American Men.</B></I> Images include a 2" x 3.25" image of a seated, well-dressed yo...

<B>Large Tintype of African-American Woman.</B></I> A large 7" x 10" tintype of an austerely dressed seated woman holdin...

<B>Celebrating Their School -- The Tuskegee Institute</B></I> A large, impressive 19" x 10" photograph with a printed le...

<B>Mixed-Race Meeting.</B></I> An interesting mounted photograph, 9.5" x 7.75" on a 14" x 11" board, showing a...

<B>Three "Black Americana" <I>Cartes de Visite</B></I>.</B></I> The first of these three images is of ...

<B>Three Black Americana <I>Cartes de Visite.</B></I></B></I> An incredible group depicting African-Americans as...

<B>Tintype of Store Front, African-Americans and Ox Cart.</B></I> 4" x 2.5", features a group of men and children, inclu...

<B>Vintage Black Americana Photographs.</B></I> This lot consists of two photographs from the late 19th or early 20th century with...

<B>Pair of Tintypes With Well-dressed African-American Couples.</B></I> Each tintype measures 2" x 3.25" and is mounted ...

<B>A. J. Russell Civil War Albumen Photograph of Black Laborers in Virginia,</B></I> 12.75" x 8.25", 18" x 12.5&quo...

<B>Nine <I>Cartes de Visite</B></I></B></I> <B>Showing Union Officers and Enlisted Men.</B></I>...

<B>Twelve <I>Cartes de Visite</B></I></B></I> <B>of Union Officers and Politicians From Lithographs.</B...

<B>Historic New York Civil War <I>Carte de Visite</B></I></B></I> with a Churchill & Denison backmark that i...

<B>Three Military Tintypes, Civil War and Later.</B></I> A nice offering of soldiers' images as follows:<BR><B>Uni...

<B><I>Carte de Visite</B></I></B></I><B> of Major-General Lew Wallace.</B></I> Scarce half-len...

<B>Boston Corbett <I>Carte de Visite</B></I>.</B></I> A handsome Mathew Brady image of Boston Corbett. This true...

<B>Cased 1/6th Plate Ruby Ambrotype of a Union Soldier.</B></I> A seated Federal infantryman is shown in a regulation frock coat h...

<B>Kit Carson, Jack Hayes, and John Brown: <I>Cartes de Visite</B></I></B></I> <B>of These Three Important...

<B><I>Carte de Visite</B></I></B></I><B> of Child Dressed as Fireman and Two CDVs of Children on Rocking H...