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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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Black Prince Ship Figurehead CDV Photo476 - Black Prince Ship Figurehead CDV Photo
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Groom Photographer, Plymouth Massachusetts.
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Milwaukee Wisconsin Cyanotype RPPC Postcard476 - Milwaukee Wisconsin Cyanotype RPPC Postcard
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1908
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Black Americana Photography Under a Cloud Blotter477 - Black Americana Photography Under a Cloud Blotter
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Unusual ink blotter.
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Mabel Favenger Art Deco Paintings477 - Mabel Favenger Art Deco Paintings
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Largest is 2" by 3"
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Black Americana Playing Cards478 - Black Americana Playing Cards
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Tongs The Iceman's Son, and Snap Got the Trousers.
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Irasburg Vermont Band RPPC Postcard478 - Irasburg Vermont Band RPPC Postcard
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Featuring the Irasburg fairgrounds. Fletcher & Company Orleans Vermont.
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Picnic Taken in a Mirror RPPC Postcard479 - Picnic Taken in a Mirror RPPC Postcard
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Nice example of trick photography
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H.C. Church Stationers Trade Card479 - H.C. Church Stationers Trade Card
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Lowell Massachusetts.
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Wallace Evans Pheasant Breeder Business Card480 - Wallace Evans Pheasant Breeder Business Card
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Oak Park Illinois.
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Chinese Street Peep Show RPPC Postcard480 - Chinese Street Peep Show RPPC Postcard
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Unusual early image.
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Sister Photographers RPPC Postcard481 - Sister Photographers RPPC Postcard
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Unusual image.
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W.E. Day Dentist Trade Card Chicago Illinois481 - W.E. Day Dentist Trade Card Chicago Illinois
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Treatment of Abscessed or Ulcerated Teeth a Specialty.
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Violinist Occupational Tintype Photo482 - Violinist Occupational Tintype Photo
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2 1/4" by 3 3/4"
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Actress Camille Clifford with Camera RPPC Postcard482 - Actress Camille Clifford with Camera RPPC Postcard
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Signed on the back.
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CYKO Advertising RPPC Photo Postcard483 - CYKO Advertising RPPC Photo Postcard
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Unusual piece of postal history. Roman B.J. Kwasniewski Amateur Photo Finishing, Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Child Prodigy Violinist Occupational Tintype Photo483 - Child Prodigy Violinist Occupational Tintype Photo
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Identified as Charles E.P. Stevens of Monmouth Illinois.
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Patriotic Occupational Guitar Player Photo484 - Patriotic Occupational Guitar Player Photo
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2 3/4" by 3".
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Photographer in Dark Room RPPC Postcard484 - Photographer in Dark Room RPPC Postcard
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Identified as John Arnold about 1911.
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Fox Co San Antonio Texas Advertising RPPC Postcard485 - Fox Co San Antonio Texas Advertising RPPC Postcard
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Fox Tone Print.
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Patriotic Uncle Sam CDV Photo485 - Patriotic Uncle Sam CDV Photo
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A.H. Noyes Photographer, Jefferson Wisconsin.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
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Patriotic Boy with American Flag Tintype Photo486 - Patriotic Boy with American Flag Tintype Photo
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2 1/4" by 3 1/2"
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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African American Black Photographer Photo486 - African American Black Photographer Photo
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Taken in a mirror. 3 1/4" by 4 1/8"
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J.W. Queen Philadelphia Photographer Letter487 - J.W. Queen Philadelphia Photographer Letter
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Postcard Written August 30th, 1887 in regards to published catalogs.
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Child on Tricycle Tintype Photo487 - Child on Tricycle Tintype Photo
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2 1/4" by 3 1/2". Unusual tricycle.
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Couple with Wood Rim Bicycles Tintype Photo488 - Couple with Wood Rim Bicycles Tintype Photo
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2 1/4" by 3 1/2"
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Hannah Frances Stuart Spirit Photographer CDV488 - Hannah Frances Stuart Spirit Photographer CDV
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Hannah Frances Stuart was known for her photos showing ghosts or spirits.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
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Stadler Studios Fake Rain RPPC Postcard489 - Stadler Studios Fake Rain RPPC Postcard
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Stadler Studios Chicago. Features a pin up girl in a superposed rain storm.
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Police and Women on Indian Motorcycle Photos489 - Police and Women on Indian Motorcycle Photos
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2 1/2" by 3 1/2". Dated 1924. One of the Officers is Named Bill Buko.
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1924 Indian Police Motorcycle Photos490 - 1924 Indian Police Motorcycle Photos
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2 1/4" by 3 1/4" each. Dated 1924 and Named to Bill Buko
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Sunnyvale California Air Ship Blimp RPPC Postcards490 - Sunnyvale California Air Ship Blimp RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping. U.S. Naval Air Station at Sunnyvale California.
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R34 Rigid Airship Zeppelin RPPC Postcards491 - R34 Rigid Airship Zeppelin RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Police and Women on Indian Motorcycle Photo491 - Police and Women on Indian Motorcycle Photo
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2 1/2" by 3 1/2". Dated 1924. One of the Officers is Named Bill Buk
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1958 Germany Triumph Motorcycle Photo492 - 1958 Germany Triumph Motorcycle Photo
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3 1/2" by 2 3/4"
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Captured German L-49 Airship RPPC Postcards492 - Captured German L-49 Airship RPPC Postcards
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Captured in France in 1917
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WWI WW1 Zeppelin Over Obermendig Postcard493 - WWI WW1 Zeppelin Over Obermendig Postcard
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Taken in Germany during WWI
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1958 Germany Triumph Motorcycle Photo493 - 1958 Germany Triumph Motorcycle Photo
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3 3/4" by 2 3/4"
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Early Yale Motorcycle Photo494 - Early Yale Motorcycle Photo
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3 1/4" by 2 1/4"
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WWI WW1 Era Observation Balloons RPPC Postcards494 - WWI WW1 Era Observation Balloons RPPC Postcards
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One is in France, the other is in El Paso Texas.
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US Navy Zeppelin Rigid Air Ship RPPC Postcards495 - US Navy Zeppelin Rigid Air Ship RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo495 - Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo
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Martha Cederholm Photographer, Filipstad Sweden.
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Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo496 - Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo
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E. Elfstrom Photographer, Ljungby Sweden.
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German Army Blimp Military RPPC Postcard496 - German Army Blimp Military RPPC Postcard
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WWI time period.
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Mechanisches Theater Hellbrunn Palace CDV Photo497 - Mechanisches Theater Hellbrunn Palace CDV Photo
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Miniature Puppet Theater in Hellbrunn Palace. Baldi & Wurthle Photographer.
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Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo497 - Boy with Wood Rim Bicycle CDV Photo
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E. Elfstrom Photographer, Ljungby Sweden.
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Young Man on Bicycle CDV Photo498 - Young Man on Bicycle CDV Photo
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Vermeulen Photographer Amsterdam.
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Dulcimer Player Automaton Postcard498 - Dulcimer Player Automaton Postcard
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Joueuse de tympanon by David Roentgen.
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Chess Playing Automaton Cabinet Photo499 - Chess Playing Automaton Cabinet Photo
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Photographer is Eastman of East Portland Oregon.
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
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Man with Wood Rim Racing Bicycle CDV Photo499 - Man with Wood Rim Racing Bicycle CDV Photo
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Elfstrum Photographer, Ljungby Sweden
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Dukes Cigarettes Coins of All Nations Cards500 - Dukes Cigarettes Coins of All Nations Cards
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Nice grouping of tobacco cards.
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Teatro Zarzuela Madrid Automaton Postcard500 - Teatro Zarzuela Madrid Automaton Postcard
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La Motogirl or The Motogirl, the famous electric doll
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