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The Maureen P. Sherlock Photography Collection.

Highlights Include:
Signed Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Historic India Travel Photo Album, Wilson Bentley Snowflake Photomicrograph, Charles Sumner Signed, Columbian Exposition Nude Tribal Girls with Rifles, Walking Billboard Banner Ladies, Byron Gurnsey The Crane Stereoview, Chess Playing Automaton, Jascha Heifetz Signed, Rose & Hopkins Ute Indians, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi Signed, American Folk Art Whimsey Bottle Maker, Prince Ramahatra, Count Basie, Charles Darwin, Perry Bradford's Orchestra, Statue of Liberty Torch Stereoviews, LDS Three Witnesses, Andrew Carnegie, Child Birth Defects, Deaf and Blind, Cults, Salvation Army, Cowboys, The West, Indians, Town Criers, Chimney Sweeps, Presidents, Chicago History, Steamships, Organ Grinders, Pets, Post Mortem, Bicycle Racing, Motorcycles, Prosthetic Limbs, African American History, Jazz, Musicians, Occupational, Crossdressing, Gay Interest, Violinists, Merchants, Gypsies, Beggars, and much more

Day 2:
Highlights Include:

Rosetta Tharpe Black Gospel Singer Signed Postcards, Jascha Heifetz Soviet Violinist, Naval Brigade USS Omaha Portraits, Daniel Rose Folk Art Whimsey Carver, Scottish Whaling, Jennie Durkee Velocipede for Ladies, Carl Moon Venturo of Taos, Illinios Patriotic Lady Liberty, Frontiersman with Sharps Rifle, Joseph Hollman Cellist, Bunnell Nez Perce Indians, Elephantine Colossus of Atlantic City, Richard C Craven Pop Art, Carmen Miranda, Civil War Musicians, Steamships, Native American Indians, Black Jazz History, Circus, Musicians, Bands, Stereoviews, Tintypes, Cabinet Photos, Folk Art, Occupational, Chinese Executions, WW2 Concentration Camps, Japanese Deceased Soldiers, and much more
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Man with Carved Prosthetic Hand CDV Photo1 - Man with Carved Prosthetic Hand CDV Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photographer is Thayer of Wyanet Illinois
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 35.00
 
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Flemish Milkmaids Dog Milk Cart Photos1 - Flemish Milkmaids Dog Milk Cart Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 50.00
 
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Collection of Scottish Bagpipers Cabinet Photos2 - Collection of Scottish Bagpipers Cabinet Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Images published in Scotland, Ontario and Milwaukee.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 40.00
 
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Mrs Maxwell Rocky Mountain Museum Stereoview2 - Mrs Maxwell Rocky Mountain Museum Stereoview
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice example
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to m*****5 (40019) for (30.00 + 8.40BP) = 38.40
 
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Mrs Maxwell Rocky Mountain Museum Stereoview3 - Mrs Maxwell Rocky Mountain Museum Stereoview
Davis Brothers Auction
Image showing a Taxidermy Buffalo head.
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to m*****5 (40019) for (50.00 + 14.00BP) = 64.00
 
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Martha Maxwell Taxidermy Exhibit Stereoviews3 - Martha Maxwell Taxidermy Exhibit Stereoviews
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice group of images of Martha Maxwell's taxidermy exhibit at the Centennial International Exhibition in Philidelphia.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 80.00
 
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Group of Nautical Fishing Cabinet Photos4 - Group of Nautical Fishing Cabinet Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Fishwives and Net Mender.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 55.00
 
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Girl with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo4 - Girl with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photographer is O.G. Jones.
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Sandwich Board Advertising Man Stereoview5 - Sandwich Board Advertising Man Stereoview
Davis Brothers Auction
J. Harold Barraclough photographer.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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WW2 African American Artillery Soldier Photos5 - WW2 African American Artillery Soldier Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Early Football and Tennis Cabinet Photos6 - Early Football and Tennis Cabinet Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice group featuring RPPC Postcards and Cabinet Photos. One man is identified as the FW Murphy, The star half back for the Beloit Iroquois Junior Foot
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 45.00
 
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Fishwife Cockle Picker Harvester CDV Photo6 - Fishwife Cockle Picker Harvester CDV Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice early unusual image.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Chicago Girls with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo7 - Chicago Girls with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photographer is Kersting of Chicago.
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Children with Pet Dogs and Cats Cabinet Photos7 - Children with Pet Dogs and Cats Cabinet Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping, both dogs and cats are shown with their owners.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Cowboy Rodeo Cattle Ranch RPPC Postcards8 - Cowboy Rodeo Cattle Ranch RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Two images by Ralph Doubleday.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 50.00
 
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Rudy Hagen Steer Horn Chair Cabinet Photo8 - Rudy Hagen Steer Horn Chair Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Back says September 1897. Uncle Rudy Hagen made chair and foot stool out of cowhide. Cow was killed for Hagen Meat Market.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Occupational Draft Horse Breeder Cabinet Photo9 - Occupational Draft Horse Breeder Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice image showing a Percheron breeder.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Collection of Organ Grinder Photos9 - Collection of Organ Grinder Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Many of these street performances featured monkeys as well.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for 130.00
 
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Logging Forester Woodsmen Cabinet Photos10 - Logging Forester Woodsmen Cabinet Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 40.00
 
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Occupational New York Shoeshine CDV Photo10 - Occupational New York Shoeshine CDV Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Wells & Smith Hornellsville New York.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for 200.00
 
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Nebraska Girl with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo11 - Nebraska Girl with Pet Dog Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Matzen & Co Omaha Nebraska.
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Series of Chinese Public Execution Photos11 - Series of Chinese Public Execution Photos
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice images.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for 70.00
 
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Group of French Musician RPPC Postcards12 - Group of French Musician RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Most of the images depict folks playing the Hurdy Gurdy.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 45.00
 
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Herbert Spencer Biologist Philospher CDV Photo12 - Herbert Spencer Biologist Philospher CDV Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Elliott and Fry Photographer. Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 30.00
 
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President James A. Garfield Cabinet Photo13 - President James A. Garfield Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Brand Portraits Chicago Illinois.
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for 140.00
 
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Maori New Zealand Carving RPPC Postcards13 - Maori New Zealand Carving RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 10.00
 
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Group of New Zealand Maori RPPC Postcards14 - Group of New Zealand Maori RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
4 of the 5 images are RPPC Postcards.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Newberg Tennyson Sideshow Performer Cabinet Photo14 - Newberg Tennyson Sideshow Performer Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Newberg & Tennyson, Galesburg Illinois
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Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Town Crier Occupational Cabinet Photo15 - Town Crier Occupational Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Rare early image.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Group of New Zealand Maori RPPC Postcards15 - Group of New Zealand Maori RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 65.00
 
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Group of British Convict Ship Success Postcards16 - Group of British Convict Ship Success Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. The Success was a British convict ship originally built in 1840 in India (as HMS Success), later used by the British Empire to transpor
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 45.00
 
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Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler Photo16 - Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice early image, either a Chair Caner, Chair Maker, or Peddler. C. Coen E. Figlio. Venice Italy
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 50.00
 
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Town Crier Occupational Cabinet Photo17 - Town Crier Occupational Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Rare early image.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 40.00
 
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Anti German Parade Propaganda RPPC Postcard17 - Anti German Parade Propaganda RPPC Postcard
Davis Brothers Auction
The postcard carries a World War I anti-German (anti-Kaiser Wilhelm II) propaganda message, mocking the defeated German leader and celebrating Allied
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 55.00
 
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Scarecrow Effigy RPPC Postcards18 - Scarecrow Effigy RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Features "Nicholas, the Patron of Purgatory" in Alaska, Scarecrows at homesteads and 'Lazy Bob' of a fish market.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 350.00
 
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Minnesota Railroad Workers Cabinet Photo18 - Minnesota Railroad Workers Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Swain Manus Photographer Minneota Minnesota. Both men are wearing matching uniforms with Railroad Hat Badges, possibly Baggage Draymen.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Pastor Siram Soren Mahan Sornen Cabinet Photo19 - Pastor Siram Soren Mahan Sornen Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photographer is Dorge of Minneapolis Minnesota. Reverend Siram Soren and wife Mahan Soren. Siram Soren (born 1844) was the first to be baptized in the
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 90.00
 
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Occupational Logger Logging Lumber RPPC Postcards19 - Occupational Logger Logging Lumber RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice Grouping.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 50.00
 
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Logging and Sawmill Occupational RPPC Postcards20 - Logging and Sawmill Occupational RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice collection of 8 postcards.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 45.00
 
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Nude Tribal Girls Columbian Exposition Photo20 - Nude Tribal Girls Columbian Exposition Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photographer is Gibson. Taken at the World's Columbian Exposition also known as the Worlds Fair. Girls are shown holding war clubs and Wincheste...
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to floor for 350.00
 
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Lansing Iowa Patriotic Parade Cabinet Photo21 - Lansing Iowa Patriotic Parade Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Boeckh Photographer. Back says Merchants Parade Lansky Iowa.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 25.00
 
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Occupational Logger Logging RPPC Postcards21 - Occupational Logger Logging RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice group of images from the early days of logging and milling lumber.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 70.00
 
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Collection of Logging RPPC Postcards22 - Collection of Logging RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice images from Washington, Idaho and California.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 35.00
 
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East Oakland California Identified Scottish Photo22 - East Oakland California Identified Scottish Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Identified as Mrs. Norman Beaton.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 20.00
 
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Wealthy Indian Family India Cabinet Photo23 - Wealthy Indian Family India Cabinet Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Hellis & Sons Head Studios London Photographer.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 35.00
 
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Statue of Liberty Construction RPPC Postcards23 - Statue of Liberty Construction RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice grouping. Images by Aaron Hill.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to floor for 70.00
 
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Folk Art Roadside Attraction RPPC Postcards24 - Folk Art Roadside Attraction RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Very interesting postcards depicting The 'Grotto of Redemption', a desk made of newspaper clippings, a concrete museum and more.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 30.00
 
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General William Booth Salvation Army Photo24 - General William Booth Salvation Army Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
The Salvation Army Studio
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Tad Lucas Champion Cowgirl Signed Photo25 - Tad Lucas Champion Cowgirl Signed Photo
Davis Brothers Auction
Photo by Doubleday. Signed and inscribed by Tad.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for 10.00
 
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Wisconsin Roadside Attraction RPPC Postcards25 - Wisconsin Roadside Attraction RPPC Postcards
Davis Brothers Auction
Nice images, most of which depicting the religious and patriotic structures in Dickeyville, Wisconsin.
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
Sold to floor for 30.00
 
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