Early 20th Century Photography

All handcrafted and very stylish pair of photo frames with inlaid Islamic designs. You don't necessary need to have an Arabic (inspired) interior to fall in love and decorate your home with these stunning Moorish picture frames. The workmanship is there for everyone to see and the combination of the warm colors of the wood and the inlaid shell simply is to die for. It is every antique sellers...

Early 20th century French antique collage composition. Images of different aviation's models. By unknown artist. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, ...

Edward S Curtis (1868-1952) Title: Reuben Taylor (Istofhuts) – Cheyenne Plate: 670 Portfolio: Volume 19 Printer: Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge Mass Medium: Photogravure Date: 1927 Dime...

No. 145 of the collection of plates published by Kleynenberg & Co. Each plate includes a title and number. This plate is titled ‘Goudontginn...

Edward S Curtis (1868-1952) Title: An Isleta Man Plate: 549 Portfolio: Volume 16 Printer: Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge Mass Medium: Photogravure Date: 1925 Dimensions: Sheet: W 17 ¾...

No.148 of the collection of plates published by Kleynenberg & Co. Each plate includes a title and number. This plate is titled ‘Tabak. Gekap...

Vintage Lake Tahoe photograph, dated 1905, shows the lake as viewed through trees and winter snow. Typical of that era is a desirable slight sepia to...

Large original gelatin silver print photograph of a sculptor w/ stone marble sculpture of mother and child. Set in a beautiful period silver gilt wood frame w/ mat and glass. Circa 1...

Antique Edward S. Curtis Native American Print “Cowichan Warrior” C1912 (26 1/2" x 18" x 1/4"). This is an antique print titled 'Cowichan Warrior' by Edward S. Curtis, created...

Pictorialist gelatin silver print sepia tone photograph by Ned Hungerford, Rochester NY ( hand ink signed lower right ) theatrical subject matter female and male ballet...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

A large photograph of Miami's Little River Industrial District, professionally printed and framed. This photograph was part of an exhibit by a local artist, who photographed many of ...

Beautiful old photo, portrait of an older man, framed in a gold frame made of wood and resin, signed and dated bottom right, Bruges 1921, professionally framed by J & L Smalle in Bru...

Pictorialist photograph of nude woman in a forest interior by Charles Cook. Silver print. Circa 1910. Charles J. Cook was a painter and pho...

Historic photograph of the first mayor of San Francisco, California after the 1906 earthquake. Edward Robeson Taylor (September 24, 1838 – July 5,...

A postcard depicting the aging Native American chief Geronimo titled "Geronimo The Greatest Indian Chief as a US Prisoner" Copyright 1909 by W.H. Martin. Published by the North American Postcard Company Kansas City. The postcard is postmarked for May 22...

American Vintage black and white photograph of Deerfield collegiate basketball team from 1945 with letter \"D\" inscribed on their sweaters in a textured grey mat and mahogany frame

Edward S Curtis (1868-1952) Title: Shijako – Pima Plate: 47 Portfolio: Volume 2 Printer: John Andrew & Son Medium: Photogravure Date: 1907 Dimension...

Framed Portrait Of A Gentleman. A large impressive framed photograph of a gentleman's portrait. The old photographic print has been produced on a board and is framed in a period oak ...

Antique Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942), circa 1910, a period hand tinted photograph entitled "Nantucket Shearing Cart and Quakers" showing classic grey shingled houses on a cobblestone paved street, with a couple in horse drawn cart riding away from the viewer, and four women on doorstep and sidewalk, all dressed in period Quaker attire. It is interesting to note that the couple in cart are seated on antique Nantucket Bow Back Windsor chairs. The photograph was titled and hand signed in pencil across the bottom of the old acid foxed mat; the photograph is now mounted in new archival acid free matting, and a photocopy of the original pencil inscription has been preserved on the reverse. The photograph itself remains in excellent condition. H. Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942) was born on September 18, 1884 in Windsor, Ontario, and immigrated to the United States circa 1890, where his father W.H. Gardiner opened two photographic studios, one in Detroit during the winter months and a second at Mackinac Island during the more tourist-oriented summer months. Recognizing the potential of Florida's rapidly growing tourist trade, around 1894-95 he moved with his family from Detroit to Daytona, Florida which proved much more accommodating to the family's photographic business during the colder winter months. Marshall learned many of his photographic techniques from his father prior to going out on his own at a relatively early age. Whereas his father generally used wet collodian negatives, technology had advanced to where he was able to use gelatin dry plates in his earlier years, and later the less expensive and much more convenient roll film. Another very important lesson learned from his father was strategy of setting up shop in a tourist resort. Early in his career he traveled to Bermuda where he shot a series of beautiful Bermuda scenes that he hand-colored and successfully sold over a number of years to the local tourist trade. Around 1910, at the age of around 24, he first traveled to the island of Nantucket. The year-round population of Nantucket was then just over 2500, not nearly enough to sustain a photographic business for the entire year, so he opened a joint Photography and Art Supplies Store. Working as Nantucket's exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak, his business expanded to include the island's only photo-finishing service. However, with such a small year-round population, even the addition of a Gift Shop to compliment the hand-painted photographs, general portrait...

Vintage Lake Tahoe Area Photograph, documented 1914 (Lake Tahoe Historical Society), of a gathering of four people, (three adults standing, and what looks...

An unusual photograph, circa 1910-1920 where the letters Lake George are made of cutout photographs. Original frame-really a unique object with character and timeless character. Lak...

An Art Deco Early 20th Century Japanese Photo Album. Images of A Japanese Culture At The Beginning Of The 20th Century & The Recorded Historical ...

Antique black and white photograph of two men dressed in formal attire. The handwritten names are rather difficult to translate. Our best translation is, "To my dear friend Jack Solu...

Photo of the New York Yacht Club flagship "Caritas". Caritas was built in 1922 for sugar magnate J. Percy Bartram. She was built by George Lawley and Sons in Neponset, Mass., after b...

A bubble glass portrait photograph, circa 1920. 15 by 23 inches

Early 20th century French antique collage composition. Images of different machine's models. By unknown artist. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, p...

Original vintage travel poster - El Escurial La Maravilla del Renacimiento Espanol Panteon de Reyes / Escurial Wonder of the Spanish Renaissance the Pantheon of Kings - featuring a s...

Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin c1925, in the opera as Boris Godunov. Photo is by Herman Mishkin (March 1870 – February 6, 1948) a Russian-American photographer in Manhattan, New York Cit...

Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927) Verrieres, vieux logis, 1922. Albumen silver print. printing out paper print from glass negative. verso right side sta...

Vintage cricket print of F. S Jackson by George Beldam. A good cricket photogravure of F.S Jackson by George Beldam, signed in pencil by Jackson...

Photographic reproduction “Goethe in the Campagna” is a painting by the German artist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, created in 1787. The painting depicts the famous German poet ...

California State Division International Association for Identification vintage photo, circa 1930 Dimensions 33.5" wide x 7.5" high The frame measures: 34.5" wide x 9" high A wide angle group photo taken at the Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California This organization is a professional association dedicated to the application of the Forensic Sciences in the Law Enforcement...

Immerse your space in the nostalgic charm of classic Americana with this vintage sepia-toned photograph of the Yale University swim team. Likely dating to the early 20th century, thi...

Exceptionally rare Japanese film poster for the 1924 adventure fantacy film The Thief of Bagdad This poster was created for the films first Japanese release in 1925. The film starred...

Circa 1920s. framed antique picture taken of the Connecticut State Prison. The Prison was opened in 1827 and was closed 1962. It also shows the ...

A beautiful Set of 20 Postcards with original photos of Arab cultures of North Africa created and commercialized by Lehnert & Landrock and signed "Editeurs L&L". This was a photographic studio run by Rudolf Franz Lehnert (Germany 1878-1948) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (Bohemia 1878-1966) active in Tunisia and Egypt in the early 20th century, noted for producing Orientalist images of North African people...

Early original sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph reminiscent of a Merce Cunningham Avant Garde art dance performance. By Rochester NY photographer Ned Hungerford / pencil si...

Presented is a fine photogravure portrait of an Ogalala woman by Edward Curtis. The image is Plate 94 from Supplementary Portfolio 3 of Edward Curtis' epic project The North American Indian. The caption provided by Curtis for this image is “A face so strong that it is almost masculine, showing strikingly how slight may be the difference between the male and female physiognomy in some Primitive people.” The photograph was taken in 1907 and the photogravure was published in 1908 by John Andrew & Son, in Boston. Edward S. Curtis created one of the most enduring and iconic visual records in the history of the photographic medium. He was an award-winning artist, a consummate craftsman, a visionary, an intrepid entrepreneur, and was highly regarded as a respected ethnographer and publisher. Curtis began photographing Native Americans in the mid-1890s and selling these images in his successful Downtown Seattle studio. One of his earliest models was Princess Angeline, the aged daughter of chief Sealth, the Suquamish Indian after whom Seattle is named. At the National Photographic Convention of 1899 Curtis was awarded the grand prize for three of his soft-focused, sepia-toned images of Puget Sound Native Americans: Evening on the Sound, The Clam Digger, and The Mussel Gatherer. Curtis spent the summer of 1900 with George Bird Grinnell observing the Sun Dance at an encampment of Blood, Blackfeet, and Algonquin in Montana. This was a pivotal experience for Curtis, confirming his desire to study and photograph the Native tribes of North America. A trip to visit the Hopi reservation in Arizona a few months later further fueled his enthusiasm. Curtis envisioned a plan to create a massive scholarly and artistic work that would document the tribes west of the Mississippi, their ceremonies, beliefs, daily life, and landscapes. In 1906, Curtis approached railroad tycoon J.P. Morgan to request financial assistance for his project. Morgan agreed to pay him a total of $75,000, or $15,000 a year for five years. Morgan and Curtis decided that Curtis' masterwork, The North American Indian, would be a set of 20 volumes of ethnographic text illustrated with high quality photoengravings taken from his glass plate negatives. Each of these volumes would be accompanied by a portfolio of large Size images, all sumptuously bound in Moroccan leather. The papers used for printing would also be of the best quality: a Dutch etching stock by Van Gelder, a Japanese vellum, and for the most discerning subscribers, a translucent Japanese tissue paper. To fund publication, Curtis would sell subscriptions at approximately $3,000 per set, with a total of 500 sets to be published. An ambitious and extensive project, Curtis spent much of his life documenting as many Native tribes as possible. The importance and the urgency of the task was clear to him, as he wrote in the introduction to his first volume of The North American Indians in 1907, "The information that is to be gathered . respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." In 1930, some 24 years after his initial request for funding, the last two volumes, Vol. 19 and Vol. 20, were published and The North American Indian project was finally completed. Curtis took over 40,000 photographs and made over 10,000 wax cylinder...

A collection of 27 police booking photographs, male and female detainees in typical profile and straight-on poses, some with contemporary manuscript name and dates. The majority cap...

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "A Mountain Steam" from circa the 1920's, and hand-signed by Percy Murray (17.25 ...

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "Approaching Time" from circa the 1920's, and hand-signed by Percy Murray (17.25x...

Colonial Tent Pegging Photograph, Poona 1903. Rare sepia toned late Victorian Colonial photograph showing a group of horsemen 'Tent Pegging' with the caption 'Poona 1903'. The photo has been embossed...

Early twentieth century photo by Edwin Levick of the Lawley Built Yacht “Caritas”. Caritas was a 112 foot private power yacht constructed at George Lawley and Son, Neponset Mass. Hom...

Louis Chevrolet, Howe and Arthur photographer.

Barney Oldfield photo by Howe and Arthur.

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "Tranquility" from circa the 1920's, and hand-signed by Percy Murray (17.25x12.75...

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "Golden Autumn" from circa the 1920's, and hand-sign...

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "Lake Boats" from circa the 1920's, and hand-signed by P...

This framed black and white photograph was done by the well-recognized Canadian photographer, Bruce Metcalfe in circa 1930 in the period Art Deco style. Bruce Metcalfe is known for h...

Set of nine black and white early 20th century photographs of Venice and Rome. Framed set of nine photographs depicting famous sites in Venice and...

Marlene Dietrich at the Reimann Arts School costume ball in Berlin, 1928, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995). One of Germany's best known art schools during the interwar ...

Epsom Fire Station Commemorative Photograph from 1902 A wonderful large piece in its original frame, presented to their Captain by the officers and men of the Epsom Fire Brigade as ...

By Carl Moon - signed gold tone; the woman is Maria Marcos - 1914. Published in "In Search of the Wild Indian" by Tom Driebe (Original frame), page 162. A copy of the book comes with...

This black-and-white photograph captures the intricate Italian architectural details, focusing on a central seated sculpture of a Roman warrior, whose reflective gaze adds a meditati...

For your consideration is gorgeous and rare antique hand-colored photo print (gelatin silver) titled "Sunlight and Shade" from circa the 1920's, and hand-signed by Percy Murray (17.2...