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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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1940 American Airlines Airplane Photo751 - 1940 American Airlines Airplane Photo
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3 1/4" by 4 1/4"
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Women with Parasols Tintype Photos752 - Women with Parasols Tintype Photos
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Nice grouping
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Post Mortem Baby Tintype Photo753 - Post Mortem Baby Tintype Photo
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2 3/4" by 3 1/4"
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Collection of Lace and Textile Tintype Photos754 - Collection of Lace and Textile Tintype Photos
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Two women in lace, and a boy standing next to a coverlet.
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Ruth Etting Signed Photo755 - Ruth Etting Signed Photo
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5" by 7". Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress during the 1920s and 1930s, who ha...
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Eddie Kadel Orchestra Ohio Photo756 - Eddie Kadel Orchestra Ohio Photo
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Detroit Michigan Cigar Store Indian Photo757 - Detroit Michigan Cigar Store Indian Photo
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Bettie Smith and Florence Mossner at Intercollegiate Club Detroit. 8" by 10" The University Club was a fraternal organization where the ci...
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Arcadia California Cigar Store Indian Photo758 - Arcadia California Cigar Store Indian Photo
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Parker Lyon at the Pony Express Museum in Arcadia California. 7" by 9".
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Rudolf Haffenreffer Cigar Store Indian Photo759 - Rudolf Haffenreffer Cigar Store Indian Photo
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1956 dated, showing the collection of Rudolf Haffenreffer that was sold at auction. 7 1/2" by 8 1/2"
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Alice Kaiser Cigar Store Indian Photo760 - Alice Kaiser Cigar Store Indian Photo
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Taken during the Tobacco Exposition in New York. 6 1/2" by 8 1/2"
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Patriotic Painted Cigar Store Indian Photo761 - Patriotic Painted Cigar Store Indian Photo
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8" by 11". Taken in front of a Pawn Shop in Chicago
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Chicago Antique Show Cigar Store Indian Photo762 - Chicago Antique Show Cigar Store Indian Photo
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1952. 8" by 10"
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Carved Ship Figurehead Photo763 - Carved Ship Figurehead Photo
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8 1/4" by 11".
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Hollywood Showboat Nashville Tennessee Photo764 - Hollywood Showboat Nashville Tennessee Photo
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7" by 11"
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Detroit Michigan Cigar Store Indian Photo765 - Detroit Michigan Cigar Store Indian Photo
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8" by 10"
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Harvard University Rowing Team Cabinet Photo766 - Harvard University Rowing Team Cabinet Photo
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8" by 10".
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Rose & Hopkins Denver Ute Indian Photo767 - Rose & Hopkins Denver Ute Indian Photo
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Poprum and Pedro Ute Bucks. 8" by 10"
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Rose & Hopkins Denver Ute Indian Photo768 - Rose & Hopkins Denver Ute Indian Photo
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Pee-a-rat and Pappoose. 8" by 10"
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Gracie Kent Louisiana Steamer Steamship Photo769 - Gracie Kent Louisiana Steamer Steamship Photo
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7" by 10". Built at Stillwater, Minnesota, for Capt. John Kent in 1897, the sternwheeler Gracie Kent was constructed by George Muller on a...
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St Charles Ohio Girls Basketball Photo770 - St Charles Ohio Girls Basketball Photo
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8" by 10"
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Daguerre Studios Chicago Orchestra Photo771 - Daguerre Studios Chicago Orchestra Photo
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8" by 10".
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Jascha Heifetz Soviet Violinist Signed Photo772 - Jascha Heifetz Soviet Violinist Signed Photo
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6 1/4" by 9". Inscribed to Miss Marion Andrews. Jascha Heifetz (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinis...
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Daguerre Studios Chicago Orchestra Photo773 - Daguerre Studios Chicago Orchestra Photo
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8" by 10".
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Jascha Heifetz Soviet Violinist as a Child Photo774 - Jascha Heifetz Soviet Violinist as a Child Photo
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6" by 8". Jascha Heifetz (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the great...
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Disabled Occupational Orchestra Cabinet Photo775 - Disabled Occupational Orchestra Cabinet Photo
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All individuals seem to be disabled, and they are holding books that say the names of their instruments. 6" by 8"
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Pole Vaulting Action Photos776 - Pole Vaulting Action Photos
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5" by 7"
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Bingham & Gable Vaudeville Cabinet Photo777 - Bingham & Gable Vaudeville Cabinet Photo
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Margaret Rebecca Gable Bingham was a Mississippi native who married Austin Hiram Bingham. 6" by 8".
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Lillian Sieger Coronet Player Signed Cabinet Photo778 - Lillian Sieger Coronet Player Signed Cabinet Photo
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Harry Bryant's Extravaganza Company. 6" by 9". A nice early vaudeville image.
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Larry Karns Columbus Ohio Conductor Photo779 - Larry Karns Columbus Ohio Conductor Photo
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B.B. King Blues Musician Photo780 - B.B. King Blues Musician Photo
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8" by 10"
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Abbey Lincoln Jazz Vocalist Photo781 - Abbey Lincoln Jazz Vocalist Photo
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8" by 10"
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Milt Jackson Vibraphone Jazz Artist Photo782 - Milt Jackson Vibraphone Jazz Artist Photo
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7" by 10 1/2".
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Cousin Fuzzy and His Cousins WBAY Polka Photo783 - Cousin Fuzzy and His Cousins WBAY Polka Photo
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8" by 10". Polka band from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Broke up in 1962.
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Hazel Scott Signed Jazz Photo784 - Hazel Scott Signed Jazz Photo
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8" by 10" Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was an American jazz and classical pianist and singer. An outspoken ...
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Lena Horne Civil Rights Activist Actress Photo785 - Lena Horne Civil Rights Activist Actress Photo
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8" by 10". Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. ...
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Mike Montgomery Ragtime Pianist Photo786 - Mike Montgomery Ragtime Pianist Photo
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8" by 10"
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Reginald R. Robinson Jazz Ragtime Pianist787 - Reginald R. Robinson Jazz Ragtime Pianist
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8" by 10".
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Eubie Blake Jazz Ragtime Pianist Photo788 - Eubie Blake Jazz Ragtime Pianist Photo
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8" by 10". James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and composer of ragti...
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B.B. King Blues Musician Photo789 - B.B. King Blues Musician Photo
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8" by 10"
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B.B. King Blues Musician Photo790 - B.B. King Blues Musician Photo
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8" by 10"
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Odetta Holmes Civil Rights Activist Singer Photo791 - Odetta Holmes Civil Rights Activist Singer Photo
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8" by 10"
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Koko Taylor Signed Photo792 - Koko Taylor Signed Photo
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8" by 10" Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed Chica...
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Odetta Holmes Civil Rights Activist Singer Photo793 - Odetta Holmes Civil Rights Activist Singer Photo
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8" by 10"
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Brownie McGhee Blues Singer Photo794 - Brownie McGhee Blues Singer Photo
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8" by 10". Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues s...
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Smokey Robinson Motown Records Photo795 - Smokey Robinson Motown Records Photo
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7" by 9". William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record ...
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Stevie Wonder Pianist Photo796 - Stevie Wonder Pianist Photo
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8" by 10"
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Salvation Army Brass Bandsman Cabinet Card Photo797 - Salvation Army Brass Bandsman Cabinet Card Photo
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4" by 6 1/2". Instrument is a cornet.
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Late 19th Century String Band Photograph798 - Late 19th Century String Band Photograph
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5 1/2" by 6 1/2".
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Early 20th Century Jazz Band Photograph799 - Early 20th Century Jazz Band Photograph
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7" by 5".
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Ruth Etting Signed Photograph800 - Ruth Etting Signed Photograph
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Includes newspaper clippings about Ruth. Ruth Etting was an American singer and actress during the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and
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