October 22, 2009 1:30 PM EDT
- New York, NY, US
- Auction Details
PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE
326 lots
- Lewis W. Hine(15)
- André Kertész(8)
- Diane Arbus(8)
- Edward Sheriff Curtis(8)
- Walker Evans(8)
1: TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800-1877) Untitled (lace).
2: TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800-1877) "The Woodcutters, Nicole & Pullen Sawing & Cleaving."
3: TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800-1877) Select group of 5 elegant photographs represented in "Sun Pictures in Scotland."
4: TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800-1877) Portrait of Talbot's daughter Ela (?).
6: CLAUDET, ANTOINE (1797-1867) Stereoscopic daguerreotype of a forthright man of the cloth and a forlorn woman,
7: (DAGUERREOTYPE) Handsome half-plate daguerreian portrait of an armed Scotsman posing with a sabre,
8: (CASED IMAGES) Group of 4 elegant portraits,
9: (PHOTOGRAPHIC JEWELRY) Group of 3 miniature gold-plated lockets,
10: BRADY, MATHEW (1823-1896) Select group of 6 portraits from Brady's Imperial portrait series, 3 are "from life."
12: GARDNER, ALEXANDER (1821-1882)/RICE, MOSES P. (active 1890s) Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
13: (ABRAHAM LINCOLN) Select group of 6 photographs of, or relating to, Abraham Lincoln,
15: (CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTONG) A handsome carte-de-visite portrait of General George A. Custer.
16: (CIVIL WAR) Rare photograph of the U.S. Colored Troops (who are apparently shown in the Carolinas),
17: (CIVIL WAR) Pair of artfully-posed variant photographs of General Sheridan and his staff.
18: (CIVIL WAR) Small album containing 20 photographs, comprising 18 cartes-de-visite and 2 tintypes of military figures,
19: (CIVIL WAR) Group of 4 sixth-plate tintypes of musicians, including two horn players in uniform (in a double thermoplastic case),
20: (CIVIL WAR) Group of 18 tintypes of Union soldiers, comprising 14 sixth-plates and 4 quarter-plates,
21: (TINTYPES) American portrait collection with more than 115 tintypes that includes a man and woman posing in front of their house,