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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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Professor Thomas Henry Huxley CDV Photo251 - Professor Thomas Henry Huxley CDV Photo
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Elliott & Fry Photographer, London. Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specia...
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Professor John Tyndall CDV Photo252 - Professor John Tyndall CDV Photo
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Signed on back. Elliott & Fry Photographer, London. John Tyndall (2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was an Irish physicist. His scientific ...
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Alexander Von Humboldt CDV Photos253 - Alexander Von Humboldt CDV Photos
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer
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Professor Michael Faraday Signed CDV Photo254 - Professor Michael Faraday Signed CDV Photo
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Ernest Edwards Photographer. Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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Louis Agassiz Biologist Geologist CDV Photo255 - Louis Agassiz Biologist Geologist CDV Photo
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Warren's Portraits, Boston Massachusetts. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologi...
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Occupational Banjo Player Tintype Photo256 - Occupational Banjo Player Tintype Photo
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2 1/4" by 3 3/4"
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Occupational Female Banjo Player Tintype Photo257 - Occupational Female Banjo Player Tintype Photo
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2 1/2" by 3 1/2"
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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Occupational Violinist Fiddler Tintype Photo258 - Occupational Violinist Fiddler Tintype Photo
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2 1/2" by 3 1/2"
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Circus Occupational Tintype Photo259 - Circus Occupational Tintype Photo
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Man in striped pants and tie. 2 3/8" by 3 3/8"
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Occupational Banjo Guitar Player Tintype Photo260 - Occupational Banjo Guitar Player Tintype Photo
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2 1/2" by 3 1/2".
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Children with Pet Dog RPPC Postcards261 - Children with Pet Dog RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Street Entertainers Organ Grinder RPPC Postcards262 - Street Entertainers Organ Grinder RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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G. Arnold Masino Hurdy Gurdy Man Ephemera263 - G. Arnold Masino Hurdy Gurdy Man Ephemera
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Nice grouping of Organ Grinder ephemera.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Occupational Town Crier Bellman CDV Photo264 - Occupational Town Crier Bellman CDV Photo
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Lambert Weston & Son, Waterloo Crescent Dover
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Occupational Blind Town Crier CDV Photo265 - Occupational Blind Town Crier CDV Photo
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Knott Photographer, Oldham.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Occupational Town Crier Bellman CDV Photo266 - Occupational Town Crier Bellman CDV Photo
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John Henderson Photographer, Stirling Scotland.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo267 - Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo
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Nice early image, either a Chair Caner, Chair Maker, or Peddler. C. Naya Photographer, Venice Italy
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Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo268 - Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo
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Nice early image, either a Chair Caner, Chair Maker, or Peddler.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo269 - Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo
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Nice early image, either a Chair Caner, Chair Maker, or Peddler.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo270 - Italy Occupational Chair Caner Peddler CDV Photo
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Nice early image, either a Chair Caner, Chair Maker, or Peddler.
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
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Occupational Umbrella Seller Peddler Photo271 - Occupational Umbrella Seller Peddler Photo
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Unusual image.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 125.00
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Occupational German Chimney Sweep CDV Photo272 - Occupational German Chimney Sweep CDV Photo
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Bruno Urban Photographer, Ladenburg Germany.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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Occupational Chimney Sweep Photos273 - Occupational Chimney Sweep Photos
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Nice grouping
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Walking Billboard Laundry Dry Cleaners Union Photo274 - Walking Billboard Laundry Dry Cleaners Union Photo
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Unusual image of a labor protestor. 3 1/2" by 5 3/4"
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Blind Disabled Woman CDV Photo275 - Blind Disabled Woman CDV Photo
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Nice image
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Start Price : 10.00 | Estimate : 25.00 - 50.00
 
 
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Charles Francois Felu Armless Painter CDV Photo276 - Charles Francois Felu Armless Painter CDV Photo
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Joseph Maes Photographer. Signed as shown. Born without arms on 26 June at Waermaede, near Courtrai, North Flanders, Charles Francois Felu nevertheles
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
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Dutch Milk Milkmaid Delivery Dog Cart CDV Photos277 - Dutch Milk Milkmaid Delivery Dog Cart CDV Photos
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Nice grouping.
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Italian Occupational Hunter CDV Photo278 - Italian Occupational Hunter CDV Photo
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Nice image.
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Pyrmont Australia Colored CDV Photos279 - Pyrmont Australia Colored CDV Photos
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Fireincke Photographer, Pyrmont.
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Hand Tinted German Merchants CDV Photos280 - Hand Tinted German Merchants CDV Photos
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Julius Hahn Photographer, Hamburg Germany
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Hand Tinted German Merchants CDV Photos281 - Hand Tinted German Merchants CDV Photos
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H. Noack Photographer
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Giorgio Conrad Italy Merchants Tinted CDV Photos282 - Giorgio Conrad Italy Merchants Tinted CDV Photos
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Nice grouping of Street Vendor Scenes.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
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WW2 P-38 Lightning Plane Nose Art Photo283 - WW2 P-38 Lightning Plane Nose Art Photo
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8" by 10 1/4".
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Leland Wilson Colville Washington Wagon Photo284 - Leland Wilson Colville Washington Wagon Photo
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Mr. and Mrs. Leland C Wilson. 8" by 10". To spread the word and raise money to develop the new breed, in 1935 L.C. Wilson of Colville, Was...
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Overland Six Sedan Car Cabinet Photo285 - Overland Six Sedan Car Cabinet Photo
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8" by 9 1/2"
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Women Driving a Touring Car Cabinet Photo286 - Women Driving a Touring Car Cabinet Photo
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8" by 10".
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Wright Airplane Biplane Photos287 - Wright Airplane Biplane Photos
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Double Sided. 7" by 9".
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Elgin Illinois Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo288 - Elgin Illinois Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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8" by 10"
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Elgin Illinois Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo289 - Elgin Illinois Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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8" by 10"
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Seamstress Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo290 - Seamstress Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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7" by 10"
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Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo291 - Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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7" by 9"
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Boston Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo292 - Boston Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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Boston Massachusetts. 8" by 10".
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Garment Workers Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo293 - Garment Workers Factory Sewing Cabinet Photo
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5" by 8 1/2"
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Oregon Short Line Railroad Cyanotype Photo294 - Oregon Short Line Railroad Cyanotype Photo
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6 3/4" by 9 1/4"
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Women Riding Bicycles Cyanotype Photo295 - Women Riding Bicycles Cyanotype Photo
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6 1/8" by 8 1/4"
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Lace Maker of Antwerp Cabinet Photo296 - Lace Maker of Antwerp Cabinet Photo
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5" by 8"
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Cant Bust Em Hickoy Stripe Overalls Factory Photo297 - Cant Bust Em Hickoy Stripe Overalls Factory Photo
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San Francisco California. 8" by 10".
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Muginer New Orleans Levee Scene Steamer Photo298 - Muginer New Orleans Levee Scene Steamer Photo
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Photo by George Muginer of New Orleans Louisiana. 5" by 8".
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Blind and Deaf Disabled People Tintype Photos299 - Blind and Deaf Disabled People Tintype Photos
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Largest is 5" by 7"
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Frost on Glass Science Snowflake Cabinet Photo300 - Frost on Glass Science Snowflake Cabinet Photo
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Unusual image. 5 1/4" by 8 1/2".
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