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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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Women Lacemakers CDV Photos201 - Women Lacemakers CDV Photos
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Women are shown in traditional French costumes from the Puy region sewing lace.
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Goldenrod Show Boat Advertisement and Photos202 - Goldenrod Show Boat Advertisement and Photos
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Card is 11 1/2" by 8 1/2". Built in 1909, the Goldenrod was the largest and most lavishly decorated showboat of its era and operated on th...
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1948 Harlem Globetrotters Memorabilia203 - 1948 Harlem Globetrotters Memorabilia
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Includes a 1948/49 yearbook that features Reece "Goose" Tatum on the cover, marking the team's 22nd year. and the 1970 team photo that...
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Collection of Statue Architecture RPPC Postcards204 - Collection of Statue Architecture RPPC Postcards
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Shows the Europa and the Bull statue in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, L'Esplanade des Quinconces in Bordeaux, France, Rider of the Elements shown ...
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Collection of Mythology Sculptures RPPC Postcards205 - Collection of Mythology Sculptures RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Collection of Greek Mythology RPPC Postcards206 - Collection of Greek Mythology RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Collection of Sculptor RPPC Postcards207 - Collection of Sculptor RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping depicting Auguste Rodin and other sculptors like Trygve A. Rovelstad.
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Collection of Classical Sculpture RPPC Postcards208 - Collection of Classical Sculpture RPPC Postcards
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Featuring Eheglück by Bertrand, "Echo" by Herzig, and Phantasie by Fritz Klimsch. Shows classic figurative sculptures, including nymp...
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European Classical Sculpture RPPC Postcards209 - European Classical Sculpture RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping of RPPC postcards depicting Paolina Bonaparte Borghese and Amore e Psiche by Antonio Canova, Sweet Dreams by Antonio Frilli, and the Win
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Bison Sculpture Palace of Fine Arts RPPC Postcard210 - Bison Sculpture Palace of Fine Arts RPPC Postcard
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Nice RPPC postcard of the temporary Bison at The Palace of Fine Arts, designed by Bernard Maybeck, was one of the few structures kept after the fair e
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Excelsior Band Group Photo RPPC Postcard211 - Excelsior Band Group Photo RPPC Postcard
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Nice example.
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The Alexander Iowa Cornet Band RPPC Postcard212 - The Alexander Iowa Cornet Band RPPC Postcard
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The band is depicted under the direction of Fred Madsen, a known advocate for C.G. Conn instruments.
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Desegregated Boys Reform School Band RPPC213 - Desegregated Boys Reform School Band RPPC
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This RPPC Postcard shows the Boys Industrial School (B.I.S.) Band in Lancaster, Ohio. The B.I.S. was founded in 1857 as the Ohio Reform School and hou
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1923 Indianapolis 500 Tommy Milton RPPC Postcards214 - 1923 Indianapolis 500 Tommy Milton RPPC Postcards
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These RPPC postcards show Tommy Milton, who was born blind in one eye and won the 500-mile race on May 30, 1923, driving the H.C.S. Special. He was th
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Art Institute Chicago Indian Model Postcard215 - Art Institute Chicago Indian Model Postcard
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1910. This postcard shows art students at the Chicago Art Institute posing with their Native American Indian model.
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WW2 D Day Crashed Horsa Glider Photo216 - WW2 D Day Crashed Horsa Glider Photo
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5" by 4". The image shows eight American paratroopers from Company A, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, who were kil...
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WW2 Wounded Soldiers Truck Wreck Photo217 - WW2 Wounded Soldiers Truck Wreck Photo
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4" by 5".
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Fields Landing Whaling RPPC Postcards218 - Fields Landing Whaling RPPC Postcards
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Whaling stations like the one in Fields Landing, California were industrial facilities designed to process whales for oil, meat, and other products.
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WW2 Dead Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoners Photo219 - WW2 Dead Dachau Concentration Camp Prisoners Photo
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5" by 4". Germany, 1945 shown wrapped in shrouds.
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WW2 Dead Dachau Concentration Camp Victim Photo220 - WW2 Dead Dachau Concentration Camp Victim Photo
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5" by 4 1/4". Germany, 1945. Shows a dead Dachau concentration camp victim's starved corpse on stretcher.
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WW2 Boeing B17 Flight Bomber Crew Nose Art Photo221 - WW2 Boeing B17 Flight Bomber Crew Nose Art Photo
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5" by 4".
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WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Survivors Photo222 - WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Survivors Photo
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5" by 4 1/4". Germany, 1945.
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WW2 Operation Greif Dead Soldier Photo223 - WW2 Operation Greif Dead Soldier Photo
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5" by 4". The burnt and wrecked remains of a Jeep sits stripped on a snowy road near Berveaux, Luxemburg right at the end of the Battle of...
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Human Crematorium Dachau Concentration Camp Photo224 - Human Crematorium Dachau Concentration Camp Photo
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5" by 4". A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven that was still lit in the Dachau camp. Photograph taken upon th...
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Nude South Pacific Women Tribal Photos225 - Nude South Pacific Women Tribal Photos
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4 1/2" by 3 1/2".
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Salvador Dali Museum RPPC Postcards226 - Salvador Dali Museum RPPC Postcards
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Largest is 5 1/2" by 3 1/2". Shows a fish market in Puget Sound, Washington.
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WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Photo227 - WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Photo
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5" by 4". Corpses are piled in the crematorium mortuary in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, May 1945.
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Collection of East and Southeast Asian Photos228 - Collection of East and Southeast Asian Photos
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Largest is 4" by 5". Nice examples showing a Pagoda in China, various temples and gates, a grand palace complex in Myanmar, and a snake ch...
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Sponge Diving Florida RPPC Postcards229 - Sponge Diving Florida RPPC Postcards
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Located in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
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Florida Hard Hat Divers RPPC Postcards230 - Florida Hard Hat Divers RPPC Postcards
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Nice grouping.
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Charles Swedlund Stereoviews Stereo Photographs231 - Charles Swedlund Stereoviews Stereo Photographs
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Chicago native Charles Swedlund studied photography at the Institute of Design (ID) in the late 1950s, studying with Aaron Siskend. As a photographer,
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Hard Hat Diver in the Snow Photo232 - Hard Hat Diver in the Snow Photo
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5 1/2" by 3 1/2".
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Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition RPPC Postcard233 - Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition RPPC Postcard
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Nice example. Shows the Prince Albert, the Educated Horse show and an octopus prop in the center.
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Renfro Valley Barn Dance RPPC Postcard234 - Renfro Valley Barn Dance RPPC Postcard
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The Renfro Valley Barn Dance is a historic country music radio show that began broadcasting in 1939. Has Emory Martin pictured in the center.
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Playing a 1930s Martin D18 RPPC Postcard235 - Playing a 1930s Martin D18 RPPC Postcard
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A 1930s Martin D-18 is a highly coveted "Golden Era" acoustic guitar, featuring Adirondack spruce tops and mahogany back and sides.
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Detters Orchestra Musical Group RPPC Postcard236 - Detters Orchestra Musical Group RPPC Postcard
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Bliss, Nebraska.
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Beaumont Fred Beck Bulldozers RPPC Postcard237 - Beaumont Fred Beck Bulldozers RPPC Postcard
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Los Angeles California.
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Ebensee Austria Concentration Camp Corpse Photo238 - Ebensee Austria Concentration Camp Corpse Photo
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5" by 4".
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WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Photo239 - WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Photo
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4" by 5 7/8".
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WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Survivors Photo240 - WW2 Dachau Concentration Camp Survivors Photo
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4 7/8" by 4". Emaciated survivors soon after liberation. Dachau, Germany, after April 29, 1945.
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Leper Colony Orchestra Trinidad RPPC Postcard241 - Leper Colony Orchestra Trinidad RPPC Postcard
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Photo shows children from a leprosy colony in an orchestra sitting with their instruments. From a Leper colony of Chacachacare island, Trinidad.
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Patriotic Christening Cyanotype RPPC Postcard242 - Patriotic Christening Cyanotype RPPC Postcard
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Nice example.
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CW Hadley the Utah Land Man RPPC Postcard243 - CW Hadley the Utah Land Man RPPC Postcard
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Nice example.
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Dr Lee DeForest Father of Radio RPPC Postcard244 - Dr Lee DeForest Father of Radio RPPC Postcard
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Also known as the Father of Radio. Lee de Forest (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S. died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California) was an A
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Edison Phonograph RPPC Postcards245 - Edison Phonograph RPPC Postcards
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RPPC postcards include cylinder phonographs and disc-playing models, some accompanied by large morning glory horns.
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Edison and Ford Innovators RPPC Postcards246 - Edison and Ford Innovators RPPC Postcards
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The photographs feature innovators Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone. Photographed in Fort Meyers, Florida.
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Collection of Florida Hard Hat Divers Postcards247 - Collection of Florida Hard Hat Divers Postcards
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Nice examples.
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Rutherford Telescope Moon Stereoview248 - Rutherford Telescope Moon Stereoview
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Nice example. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) was a New York lawyer and amateur astronomer who is credited with taking some of the finest
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Rutherford Telescope Moon Stereoview249 - Rutherford Telescope Moon Stereoview
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Nice example. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) was a New York lawyer and amateur astronomer who is credited with taking some of the finest
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Centennial Exhibition Machinery Hall Stereoview250 - Centennial Exhibition Machinery Hall Stereoview
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Shows the inside the Machinery Hall at the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. The Exhibition was the first official Wor
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