1952. Photograph. 1952 presentation --with full pedigree-- of the champion-to-be dachsund "Rusty", as here represented in portraiture by his proud relative "Bunnell Boruss". Meticulously detailed lines of breeding and show records for this family of champion show dogs and pure-bred dachsunds. Rusty was bred by the Donald Bunnells of Hollywood..... More
Magnum Photos, 1962. Photograph. A crisp, very sharp print of Rachel Carson, taken in 1962 by Erich Hartmann for Magnum Photos. The photograph is clean and Near Fine and measures 8" x 10" More
1977. Photograph. Roughly 2 1/2 months before his death at age 42 (on August 16th, 1977), Elvis Presley played his final Florida concert on May 30th, 1977, at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in front of 10,000 people. We have here a very uncommon, framed collage of 10 original prints..... More
Photograph. Crisp, very attractive black-and-white print of a pensive Somerset Maughman, deep in reflection, posing in a comfortable older chair. Inscribed by Maugham in clear firm ink below the photograph. Handsomely matted and framed as well. Measuring in its frame 12 1/4" wide x 14 1/2" tall. Photographer unknown. A...... More
1890. Photograph. Lovely vintage photograph (1890) of the historic Wainwright Building of St. Louis, designed by master architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924, "the Father of Skyscrapers", "the Father of Modernism") and "credited for representing the first successful utilization of steel frame construction". The photo, clean and handsome in its crisp black-and-white..... More
1925. Photograph. Unusual photograph of the East Vasayan baseball team of Manila, taken as "the runner-ups of the Philippine Inter-Scholastic Championship of 1925". At the rear is a torn --but still preserved-- piece of aged brown paper, with the typewritten roster of the team, mentioning by name all 12 players..... More
The New York Times Studios, c. 1920s. Photograph. A wonderful 1920s New York item, an unusually large portrait (a vintage silver gelatin print) of the legendary maitre d' and host of the Waldorf-Astoria, Oscar Tschirky (1866-1943). Better known throughout the world as "Oscar of the Waldorf", Tschirky not only became..... More
Photograph. Rare vintage photograph of San Francisco, probably pre-20th century, almost certainly pre-1906. Appears to be a panoramic shot --possibly from Telegraph Hill?-- of The Marina and San Francisco Bay. The headlands of Marin are off in the distance and the span which the Golden Gate Bridge would come to..... More
Photograph. Wonderful early gravure portrait photograph of the great Cesar Romero (immortalized for his original portayal of "The Joker"), probably taken by German-Australian photographer Henry Talbot (1920-1999) in the early to mid 1940s (signed "Talbot" in the photo). ALSO INCLUDES A PASTED-ON INK SIGNATURE OF CESAR ROMERO along the photograph's..... More
1960. Photograph. Very early signed portrait by 20 yr. old Larry Fink of his 16 yr. old sister Elizabeth, who went on to become a renowned Civil Rights attorney, defending, among others, a number of the inmates from the 1971 Attica Prison Riot. Possibly Larry Fink's earliest work on the..... More
Charleston, SC: 1920. Photograph. A collection of 9 original, detailed photographs --each stamped "Lillian Gish" at the rear-- of a serious 1920 train wreck outside of Charleston, SC involving Lillian's sister actress Dorothy Gish and their mother. To quote the handwritten description on the back of one of the photographs..... More
Weimar, Germany: 1886. Photograph. Scarce original photograph of Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in his study, at his writing table, in his long-term residence in Weimar, Germany (1869-1886). Taken by the renowned Weimar photographer Louis Held, whose blindstamp-in-block is impressed on the photograph at the lower right corner..... More
Little Falls, New Jersey: The Aquarian Weekly, 1980. Photograph. The original photograph on which the September 24th, 1980 issue of The Aquarian Weekly was based, with a compelling black-and-white portrait of Bob Marley gracing the cover. (He passed away just shy of 9 months later at 36). The photograph is..... More
